Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences has published a bumper themed issue devoted to EM as well as other related theses, now collectively known as 4E. There is a “whose who” of contributors including the old firm Adams and Aizawa, Barnier, Sutton, Menary, Sterelny, Harris and others. This promises to be a super “must read” collection. Congrats…
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…
Here is a new paper from Nivedita Gangopadhyay. Also check out her recent paper for the collection I edited.
Shaun Gallagher known primarily for his work on embodiment and phenomenology is extending (pardon the gratuitous use of this term) his thinking to include the social dimension in a forthcoming talk in Montreal. (Friday, February 18th 2011, from 3 p.m. at UQAM, room DS-1950 – Métro Berri-UQAM, pavillon De Sève). The abstract posted: I argue…
Here is the wonderfully lucid and often provocative Maggie Boden being interviewed. Check out her monumental Mind as Machine. Few, if any, are better placed to offer such a wide perspective of this wildly exciting field.
The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available – based upon last year’s Edinburgh conference.
Turing machine: this via my chum David Livingstone Smith.
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…
I want to give a plug to the soon to be released book by my chum David Livingstone Smith. DLS has that wonderful ability to make serious reading very accessible while never dumbing down the subject matter. Here is a just released UNE article on DLS. See here for the book’s Amazon page listing endorsements…
Some books to look out for in 2011: Also Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science (shame about the cringe-making subtitle that has all the hyperbolic clichés “toward,” “new” and that old favourite “paradigm.”) Neuromania: On the limits of brain science
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