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Basic social cognition without mindreading: minding minds without attributing contents
New paper by Dan Hutto. Also check out Tom Froese’s review of Dan’s recent co-authored book. Cognitionconsciousnessdaniel huttoenactivismerik myinmind readingnon-conceptual contentphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindRadicalizing Enactivismsituated cognitionsocial cognitionTom Froese
Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain
Coming soon. aestheticsArtBrainbrain imagingbrain scienceCognitionCognitive sciencedanceEmbodied cognitionmusicneuroaestheticsphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualia
Must cognition be representational?
William Ramsey in Synthese CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid Marrdistributed cognitionExtended MindFolk psychologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindrepresentationalismsituated cognition
The drunk utilitarian
This in Cognition. alcoholCognitionconsequentialismMoral psychologyUtilitarianism
In your face: transcendence in embodied interaction
A new open access article by Sean Gallagher (there currently seems to be some problem with the journal’s website but will hopefully be resolved). In cognitive psychology, studies concerning the face tend to focus on questions about face recognition, theory of mind (ToM) and empathy. Questions about the face, however, also fit into a very…
If a dog could talk, we could not understand him
This famous phrase of Wittgenstein (substitute lion for dog) seems to be salient here. Alva Noë takes on yet another one of those techno-ebullient MRI studies. Alva NoëBrainCognitive neuroscienceEmotionLudwig WittgensteinMagnetic resonance imagingNeurophilosophyPhilosophy of mind
Frege’s puzzle and Frege cases: Defending a quasi-syntactic solution
Here is the intro to Rob’s article: There is no doubt that social interaction plays an important role in language-learning, as well as in concept acquisition. In surprising contrast, social interaction makes only passing appearance in our most promising naturalistic theories of content. This is particularly true in the case of mental content (e.g., Cummins,…
The social-cognitive dynamics of metaphor performance
Here is the into to Raymond and Lynne’s paper: Any extended analysis of everyday talk reveals the presence of stretches of language that convey metaphorical meaning. Consider, as one example, the following remarkable conversation between Jo Berry, whose father, Sir Anthony Berry, was killed by a bomb in 1984, and Patrick Magee, who planted the…
The boredom of boozeless business
This piece from The Economist – cheers! Another recent paper from the journal Consciousness and Cognition by psychologists at the University of Illinois confirms what many have long suspected: a couple of drinks makes workers more creative. Tipsy employees, they say, find it hard to focus on a task, but this makes them more likely to…
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