Formal Modeling in Social Epistemology
I don’t normally plug conferences but this one is unsual in that it falls squarely within my current research interests. Check out the conference webpage here.
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Gaslighting: Cognitive Sabotage in the Extended Mind
Here’s an interesting take on the notion of extended mind from the always thoughtful Susannah Devitt. I look forward to reading the complete paper.
Cognitive Scaffolding
This paper by Naomi Rokotnitz from a recently held conference featuring Andy Clark.
Neuronal marketplace
According to Edge Dennett has had some second thoughts. Knowing what I do of Hayek’s philosophical psychology and his proto-connectionism, he may well approve of Dennett’s characterization. My mistake was that I had stopped the finite regress of homunculi at least one step too early! The general run of the cells that compose our bodies…
I am a strange loop
Wonderful to see Douglas Hofstadter’s book I Am a Strange Loop win an LA Times Book Award. What passess as the literati these days needs to be exposed to a mind that is highly cultured, literary and that has unforced conceptual depth. See the Scientific American and the JASSS reviews from last year. Douglas Hofstadter
Brain Salad Surgery
Pardon the title of this posting but it’s the best I can do. A mini-interview in the New Scientist (April 19-25) caught my eye. Jill Bolte Taylor’s story gives credence to the network model of cognitive architecture that postulates that cognitive representations consist of widely distributed networks of cortical neurons. Cognitive functions, namely perception, attention, memory, language,…
Cyborg
With the film Iron Man about to be released, the Hollywood publicity machine has hit full stride. Despite the symbiotic relationship of Hollywood to glossy magazine culture, there are occasionally some interesting articles to be found. One such article is the May edition of Popular Science. What’s being discussed is Exoskeleton technology – something that has…
Neuroscience for Dilettants
Thank you Raymond Tallis for this well needed intellectual astringent. raymond tallis
New Issue of Journal of Mind and Behavior
Vol.28 No 3. Summer 2007 Vol.28 No 4. Autumn 2007 Why History Matters: Associations and Causal Judgment in Hume and Cognitive Science. Mark Collier, University of Minnesota, Morris The Phenomenology of Freedom. Tomis Kapitan, Northern Illinois University Process, Quantum Coherence, and the Stream of Consciousness. Keith A. Choquette, Brockton, Massachusetts The Frontal Feedback Model of…
Visual Complexity
Thanks to Simon Garnier I discovered this wonderful website dedicated to representations of complexity. As a social epistemologist I have a particular interest in knowledge networks and social networks. The images that draw upon biology for inspiration are particular compelling – on aesthetic grounds alone. complexity
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