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)
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Merleau-Ponty
My visit to Merleau-Ponty’s grave coincided with the 50th anniversary of his death. It was Andy Clark who first brought Merleau-Ponty to my attention (Phenomenology of Perception) in his seminal book Being There, the latter, for me at least, one of those books that presented a seismic shift to my thinking. My interest in M-P is in his…
David Rumelhart (1942-2011)
Stanford University News New York Times I Programmer Rumelhart was enormously important in the 1980s in reviving this neural network approach to language and cognition Steven Pinker
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…
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?
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,…
Rob Haskell Obituary
Last year I reported the death of my chum Rob Haskell. Here is an obituary from the latest issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior with which he was long associated. A Compassionate Scholar: A Tribute to Dr. Robert Eugene Haskell April 16, 1938 – July 17, 2010 Though no rigorous researcher would downplay…
Extended Mind Sketch
Here’s a nicely done and amusing sketch/skit inspired by the locus classicus The Extended Mind article.
Swarm Cognition
Check out the latest themed issue of Swarm Intelligence. Here is the freely available introduction. Nice to see the term “cognition” used since I have been using the term in this regard for a few years.
Klein reviews Rupert
At last Colin Klein’s terrific critical notice of Rob Rupert’s fine-grained critique Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind is now available in the latest issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior.
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