Within the DEEDS literature, few if any, make reference to Gregory McCulloch’s The Life of the Mind (Routledge, 2003). The subtitle “An essay on phenomenological externalism” barely hints at McCulloch’s distinctiveness. According to Tim Crane’s forward to The Life of the Mind, it was a book that McCulloch had been working on for almost twenty years. And it shows.…
The following is an abstract for my forthcoming (2009) contibution to: The Social Science of Hayek’s ‘The Sensory Order’ William N. Butos, Volume Editor Advances in Austrian Economics Hayek: Cognitive Scientist Avant la Lettre This paper conceives of Hayek’s overall project as presenting a theory of sociocognition, explication of which has a twofold purpose: 1.…
Jerry Fodor, in a review in the London Review of Books of Galen Strawson’s Consciousness and Its Place in Nature, opens the review with an ascerbic observation. I quote: Consciousness is all the rage just now. It boasts new journals of its very own, from which learned articles overflow. Neuropsychologists snap its picture (in colour)…
Friedrich Hayek must rate as one the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. I take the view that his achievement is on a par with his cousin – Wittgenstein. Most people know Hayek for his political philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science and philosophical jurisprudence. The distinctive and unifying thread across all Hayek’s thought was…
Update This issue is scheduled to appear in the Autumn of 2008. All accepted papers will subject to the usual refereeing process. The contributors: Leonard Angel (Douglas College) Lynne Baker (UMass Amherst) Matthew Day (Florida State) Joel Krueger (Copenhagen) Leslie Marsh (Sussex) Teed Rockwell (Sonoma State) Mark Rowlands (Miami)
It’s been ten years since a snappy and provocative paper by Andy Clark and David Chalmers (1998) audaciously burst upon the philosophical scene. Given that the paper had been rejected three years earlier by three major journals (Chalmers 2008, 42), it must surely have come as an enormous surprise to the authors that a veritable…
A co-authored paper with Chris Onof, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London and School of Philosophy, Birkbeck College London. A pre-press version is available for download here. Final to appear in Cognitive Systems Research Special Issue. Abstract: To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition…
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