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Cognitive Science Research: Extended Mind Themed Issue

Here is my introduction to the themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research. The full collection is now available here.

Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, Embedded, embodiment, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, functionalism, journal of mind and behavior, robert rupert, robert wilson, Supersizing the Mind

Rupert review of Clark

Here’s a great pairing – Rob Rupert, one of the three most formidable critics of the extended mind thesis (the other two of course being Adams & Aizawa) – reviewing the most formidable promoter of EM. See the latest issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior. (Also see another of Rob’s reviews of Clark…

Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, Anthony Chimero, artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, brain science, cognitive science, consciousness, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Dobromir Dotov, embodiment, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, frame problem, Fred Adams, Heidegger, hubert dreyfus, Ken Aizawa, Lin Nie, Michael Wheeler, mind body, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, Rick Dale, robert wilson, Shaun Gallagher, situated cognition, Supersizing the Mind

“Empiricalizing” Heidegger

Tony Chemero has kindly sent me these links to a paper he, Dobromir Dotov and Lin Nie have just had published. The first link is to the full paper entitled “A Demonstration of the Transition from Ready-to-Hand to Unready-to-Hand.” The second link is to a popularized version of the aforementioned paper entitled “Your Computer Really Is…

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Mind in Life

I’ve just completed reading Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind, a work which I heartily endorse as the best statement yet of the enactivist theory of mind. I especially like his taking on the philosopher’s zombie and his chapter on Empathy and Enculturation. Last, but by no means least,…

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Hayek: Cognitive scientist Avant la Lettre

My published article is now available from here. Check out the full table of contents for this volume.

ADINA ROSKIES, brain, brain scans, brain science, EMILY MURPHY, episteme, epistemology, evidence, evidence and law, fMRI, social epistemology, TENEILLE BROWNE, WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG

Brain Images as Legal Evidence

Check out this paper freely available as a pdf download here. ABSTRACT This paper explores whether brain images may be admitted as evidence in criminal trials under Federal Rule of Evidence 403, which weighs probative value against the danger of being prejudicial, confusing, or misleading to fact finders. The paper summarizes and evaluates recent empirical research relevant to…

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Art and the Nature of Consciousness

Check out the terrific work of artist Susan Aldworth. Her artistry emerges from both a philosophical and an empirical sensibility. See here for a brief profile and artist’s statement.

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The Social Science of Hayek’s The Sensory Order

Here are the publisher’s details for this soon-to-be released volume that includes my paper “Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre“