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
Speaking of Andy Clark and Alva Noë in the previous posting, here is Noë writing for NPR set to continue in another installment.
After some very middling opinion articles in this forum we have Andy Clark who is both a superb stylist and actually has interesting things to say. The title of the piece echos Alva Noë’s recent Out of Our Heads. Andy references some great images recently featured in the NYT that I was tempted to say something…
Embodied cognition and Merleau-Ponty in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society – wonders will never cease!
Tune into the live stream of Rob Wilson’s keynote talk at the ARPA. Rob is of course the author of the excellent Boundaries of the Mind.
Fred Adams, one of the most trenchant critics of extended cognition, has a new paper out here. If you appreciate Fred’s no-nonsense snappy style, check out another of his recent papers here.
Rick Grush and co-author Amanda Brovold gave an interesting presentation at UBC. Grush’s reference to online gaming – his analysis of the gamers transcripts – was fascinating. Abstract: I present (work done in collaboration with Amanda Brovold) an account of the semantics of demonstratives, both exophoric and endophoric. The account, which represents a significant shift…
Check out my chum, philosopher extraordinaire, and occasional co-author, Chris Onof’s new piece for the Kant Yearbook.
Larry Shapiro’s book Embodied Cognition has just been published. Anything by Larry is well worth a read. This book comes with dust jacket recommendations from no less than heavy hitters such as Fred Adams, Arthur Glenberg, Rob Wilson, Elliott Sober and Ken Aizawa. If you haven’t already done so, check out his excellent The Mind Incarnate.
The latest issue of JMB is now available. The pieces that will particularly interest my constituency are: (1) The Boundaries Still Stand: A Reply to Fisher by Kenneth Aizawa, and (2) A Critical Notice of Radical Embodied Cognitive Science by Anthony Chemero, reviewed by Rick Dale.
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