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Qualia on Philosophy TV

Richard Brown (ebullient blogger at Philosophy Sucks!) and Keith Frankish discuss qualia on Philosophy TV. Richard’s dog Frankie chimes in as well.

artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, ginger campbell, Lawrence Shapiro, mark rowlands, philosophy of mind, robert rupert, situated cognition

Rupert Reviews Rowlands/Interview with Shapiro

These two items via Ken Aizawa’s blog. 1. Rob Rupert reviews Mark Rowlands’ latest 2. Ginger Campbell interviews Larry Shapiro (check out the companion episodes Ginger mentions)

cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, embodied cognition, embodiment, Joel Krueger, Lawrence Shapiro, music, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science

Doing things with music

Two items of note (at least for me) from the excellent Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: great to see this journal flourishing. I recall a correspondence with an eminent emeritus professor of philosophy at McGill around 2000 who nearly had a coronary when I told him of my interest in phenomenology (he’s still with us…

brain, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, Eliminative Materialism, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, moral philosophy, mri, neural correlates, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, patricia churchland, paul churchland, philosophy of mind, value

Pat Churchland on the source of value

Another video (via David Livingstone Smith) of Pat Churchland plugging her and Paul’s forthcoming book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality. This talk is part of the The Great Debate conference Can Science Tell Us Right From Wrong?

brain, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, gary williams, Micah Allen, neural networks, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, plasticity, qualia, sociocognition

Consciousness, plasticity, and connectomics: the role of intersubjectivity in human cognition

Check out this just published paper by Micah Allen and Gary Williams in the open access journal Frontiers in Psychology. Consciousness is typically construed as being explainable purely in terms of either private, raw feels or higher-order, reflective representations. In contrast to this false dichotomy, we propose a new view of consciousness as an interactive,…

Alva Noë, ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive science, complexity, computation, computational intelligence, computationalism, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Gilbert Ryle, IBM's Watson, intentionality, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, robotics, robots, rodney brooks, situated cognition

AI as applied philosophy

Here’s a snappy piece by Alva Noë on man vs. machine. Is the ant smart? Or stupid? Maybe neither. Or, most intriguingly of all, maybe it is both? Is there an experimentum crucis that we might perform to settle a question like this once and for all? No. Intelligence isn’t like that. It isn’t something that…

active externalism, Andy Clark, cognition, david chalmers, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science

Spreading the Joy? Why the Machinery of Consciousness is (Probably) Still in the Head

Check out this recent(ish) paper by Andy Clark in Mind Vol. 118 . 472 . October 2009 Is consciousness all in the head, or might the minimal physical substrate for some forms of conscious experience include the goings on in the (rest of the) body and the world? Such a view might be dubbed (by analogy with…

brain, brain science, churchland, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, mirror neurons, neuromania, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phantom limbs, philosophy of mind, Ramachandran, raymond tallis, synesthesia

Tallis Reviews Ramachandran’s Latest

Via Pete Mandik at Brain Hammer here is a rather snippy review by Raymond Tallis in the WSJ on V. S. Ramachandran’s latest which just yesterday I was leafing through. Is this the opening salvo of a slanging match akin to the APA Eastern Division meeting a few years back with Dennett vs. Bennett and Hacker? The…