Minds and Societies
Social cognition is this year’s theme at the Summer Institute in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal.
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Anti-Individualism
Though I haven’t yet read Sandy Goldberg’s brand new book Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification I do look forward to doing so. I’d be interested to how Sandy’s work differs from Jessica Brown’s Anti-Individualism and Knowledge of a few years ago.
Bounds of Cognition II
Press release cum interview for The Bounds of Cognition, a book I have already heartily recommended. I’m pleased to say that the authors are contributing to a themed issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior on the “extended mind” that I’m editing.
The Mind of the Market
Tyler Cowen’s Washington Post review of Michael Shermer’s The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales From Evolutionary Economics.
Cognition unbound
It seems that the notion of embodied cognition is seeing a spike in the release of new books – not to mention that the mainstream media has now picked up the idea. I’ve already mentioned the Boston Globe piece. I’ve since discovered that there is an NPR piece plugging the Blakeslees’ The Body Has a Mind of Its Own. Other recent similar titles…
Hayek on distributed knowledge
Cass Sunstein writes on the TPM Blog that Hayek’s ideas of distributed knowledge “bear directly on open source software, wikis, prediction markets, and perhaps much more”. Yes, indeed. The mechanism that captures this aggregating phenomenon is called STIGMERGY: the phenomenon of indirect communication mediated by modifications of the environment. Indeed, much of what goes on in the complex…
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