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ADINA ROSKIES, brain, brain scans, brain science, EMILY MURPHY, episteme, epistemology, evidence, evidence and law, fMRI, social epistemology, TENEILLE BROWNE, WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG

Brain Images as Legal Evidence

Check out this paper freely available as a pdf download here. ABSTRACT This paper explores whether brain images may be admitted as evidence in criminal trials under Federal Rule of Evidence 403, which weighs probative value against the danger of being prejudicial, confusing, or misleading to fact finders. The paper summarizes and evaluates recent empirical research relevant to…

alan millar, cognitive ecology, David Bloor, David Henderson, episteme, epistemology, Finn Spicer, hilary kornblith, Lorraine Code, Martin Kusch, Matthew Chrisman, mike ridge, miranda fricker, peter graham, ram neta, sandy goldberg, social epistemology, Stephen Grimm

EPISTEME ’10 Update: Cognitive Ecology

Duncan Prichard, our local host in Edinburgh, has just updated the EPISTEME conference info – registration is now open! A pretty impressive line-up from all factions of social epistemology.

Ana Cordeiro dos Santos, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, computer simulations, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, episteme, epistemology, Experimental Economics, Jack Vromen, philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, Uskali Mäki

The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics

A new book by Ana Cordeiro dos Santos has come to my attention. Aside from the title which caught my eye – The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics – what recommends checking the book out is that Ana’s pedigree is notable – her PhD was supervised by Uskali Mäki and Jack Vromen, both top-draw minds…

alvin goldman, episteme, epistemology, mind reading, mirror neurons, relativism, Reliabilism, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology

Alvin Goldman Symposium

Look out for what might be best considered the results from a symposium on Alvin Goldman in his distinctive guise as epistemologist – distinctive in the sense that he’s been at the heart of “analytical” epistemology for the past 40+ years and has recently lead the charge to make social epistemology acceptable to analytical epistemologists.…

cognition, cognitive ecology, David Bloor, episteme, epistemology, Martin Kusch, science wars, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociocognition, strong programme

Cognitive Ecology

The program for EPISTEME 2010 is firming up nicely. It’s great to see Martin Kusch finally involved with EPISTEME. Discussants at large include David Bloor – how ecumenical is that? In many ways social epistemology comes home – Edinburgh historically being a hotbed of the Strong Programme – and EPISTEME being published by Edinburgh University…

ADINA ROSKIES, ALEX STEIN, AMALIA AMAYA, DALE NANCE, EDWARD STEIN, episteme, epistemology, evidence, evidence and law, FREDERICK SCHAUER, JENNIFER MNOOKIN, KAREN PETROSKI, LARRY LAUDAN, MICHAEL SAKS, RONALD ALLEN, social epistemology, SUSAN HAACK, WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG

The epistemology of legal evidence

A reminder that the bumper issue of EPISTEME is available for free download. See the first paragraph below which discusses the lacuna this issue fills. WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG AND FREDERICK SCHAUER INTRODUCTION Epistemology and the philosophy of law are both thriving, but it is unfortunate that there is so little interaction between the two. Few books…

brain hammer, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, conspiracy theories, episteme, epistemology, pete mandik, philosophy of mind, social epistemology

Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind

Pete Mandik is trailing his forthcoming book – Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind – to be published by Continuum. From what I’ve read of Pete’s work, he always offers a reliable hard-nosed account of issues in the philosophy of mind and is very up on the literature – he is not stuck in rehashing philosophy…