Rob Wilson – Mind Spread
Tune into the live stream of Rob Wilson’s keynote talk at the ARPA. Rob is of course the author of the excellent Boundaries of the Mind.
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The Mysteries of the Brain
Here is Barry Smith talking on the BBC World Service on The Mysteries of the Brain.
Consciousness in Interaction: The Role of the Natural and Social Context in Shaping Consciousness
My chum Mirko Farina has alerted me to a high-powered collection he and co-author Julian Kiverstein are contributing to. Here is the table of contents. One of the intriguing chapter titles is by Andy Clark. (Mirko tells me the volume has been severely delayed). I’m also looking forward to Mirko’s review of another contributor to this…
NeuroPhone
This is WILD – is this Andy Clark’s Natural-Born Cyborgs coming to full fruition? Thanks to my collaborator Marge Doyle for sending this my way. Check out this Award Abstract from the NSF and check out this paper by members of the Mobile Sensing Group at Dartmouth. Abstract Neural signals are everywhere just like mobile phones. We propose to…
Adams on Embodied Cognition
Fred Adams, one of the most trenchant critics of extended cognition, has a new paper out here. If you appreciate Fred’s no-nonsense snappy style, check out another of his recent papers here.
Aizawa and Rowlands discuss the extended mind
Two of the leading players from each side of the extended mind divide (Ken Aizawa of course a pre-eminent critic; Mark Rowlands a long-time proponent) discuss EM. There is much besides on the Philosophy TV website.
James Bond and the Barking Dog: Evolution and Extended Cognition
Larry Shapiro has a new paper posted on his website. Prominent defenders of the extended cognition thesis have looked to evolutionary theory for support. Roughly, the idea is that natural selection leads one to expect that cognitive strategies should exploit the environment, and exploitation of the right sort results in a cognitive system that extends beyond the head…
Cognitive ability and the extended cognition thesis
Here’s a just published paper by Duncan Pritchard in Synthese. It’s reassuring to see epistemologists picking up on the extended mind thesis – the other notable epistemologist pursuing this line is Sandy Goldberg. This is the way things are going – I for one am working on a project that will be a major push in…
Grayling on neurophilosophy
Here’s a brief view of neurophilosophy from Anthony Grayling in The Philosopher’s Magazine.
Extended Mind – Themed Issue of CSR
The full and sequential lineup of this special issue of CSR is now available as Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 311-408 (December 2010). Thanks to all – the contributors and the Elsevier type-setting team for making this such a smooth experience.
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