Alva Noë on where to look Alva NoëAstonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the SoulBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDescartesEmbodied cognitionExtended MindFrancis CrickneurosciencePhilosophy of mindRené Descartes
My chum Chor-yung Cheung who like myself is both an Oakeshottian and a Hayekian introduces his paper below: Friedrich Hayek’s social philosophy is one of the most systematic and sophisticated among the contributions made by 20th-century liberal thinkers. His defense of the free market and individual freedom and his critique of collectivism of various kinds are…
A pre-print of Paul Smart’s paper. CognitionCognitive scienceExtended MindMindPaul Smartphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindShaun GallagherSocial Sciences
Here is the follow up to an earlier post on The Royal Institution event: presentations discussion BrainChris FrithCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionHard problem of consciousnessPhilosophy of mindPsychologyqualiaRoyal Institution
One week to go until the 10th Biennial Toward a Science of Consciousness Plenary sessions consciousnessConsciousness StudiesDavid ChalmersDeepak ChopraLeonard MlodinowMenas KafatosNed BlockPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindqualiaStuart HameroffSusan BlackmoreTucson Arizona
Here is a translation I commissioned by José Villavicencio of Joaquin Fuster’s “Prólogo” to F. Hayek El Orden Sensorial. Unión Editorial, S.A., Madrid, pp 11-23, 2004. +++++++++++++++++++ Prologue Salzburg, May 17, 1976 Dear Professor Fuster, Thank you very much for your kind letter dated the 3rd of this month and that I have in my possession without…
A freely available piece from Topics in Cognitive Science. With the keywords complexity; dynamical systems; extended cognition; consciousness – who could resist. In fact the whole issue is freely available from this relatively new title published under the auspices of the Cognitive Science Society. The complex systems approach to cognitive science invites a new understanding of…
Check out the recently completed online conference. Bravo to Richard Brown for this great initiative. Also check out the forthcoming issue of Consciousness and Cognition that features papers from CO2. CognitionconsciousnessConsciousness and CognitionPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind
Check out the latest issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, a themed issue built around Dave Chalmers’ 2010 JCS paper “The Singularity“. What happens when machines become more intelligent than humans? One view is that this event will be followed by an explosion to ever-greater levels of intelligence, as each generation of machines creates…
Part of the Guardian’s Hard Problem series. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceneurosciencePhilosophy of mindqualia
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