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July 3, 2009cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of social science, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology

The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available – the theme is computer simulations – an topic that is seeing a great deal of growth. Alexander RieglerCarlo MartiniGerhard SchurzIgor DouvenJ. McKenzie AlexanderJan SprengerKevin J. S. ZollmanPaul HumphreysRainer HegselmannStephan HartmannUlrich Krause

June 29, 2009cognitive anthropology, cognitive modeling, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, epistemology, financial markets turmoil, particle swarm optimization, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Complexity 101

Here are some nice distinctions drawn about complexity theory by someone coming to the subject with a fresh and curious mind.

April 22, 2009aggregation, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, emergence, epistemology, extended mind, leslie marsh, Mass Collaboration, neurophilosophy, particle swarm optimization, situated cognition, social epistemology, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Stigmergy Wiki

True to the spirit of stigmergy I was pleased to learn of a wiki dedicated to all things stigmergical – StigmergyLive.

April 18, 2009alvin goldman, coherentism, david armstrong, epistemology, idealism, ignoratio elenchi, leslie marsh, michael freeden, modality, modernity, modes, Nozick, oakeshott, podoksik, political philosophy, postmodern, quine, ramsey, relativism, rorty, sellars, terry nardin, truth

Oakeshott’s Relativism

Attributions of relativism to Oakeshott are twofold: The first, and the more common attribution, is from the general perspective of viewing Oakeshott as a postmodern relativist. The second, more technical aspect and less familiar attribution, involves the assumption that Oakeshott was a coherentist. I examine the second view first. On this assumption it is standard to…

April 14, 2009Branden Fitelson, David Jehle, disagreement, Earl Conee, episteme, epistemology, Jonathan Matheson, Michael Bergmann, Richard Feldman, roger white, Sherrilyn Roush, social epistemology, Stewart Cohen, Tomas Bogardus

EPISTEME 2009

The list of speakers for EPISTEME 2009 to be held at Northwestern is now available. Accommodation and travel details here.

March 11, 2009artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, cognitive systems research, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, emergence, epistemology, extended mind, situated cognition, social cognition, social epistemology, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Top of the Pops (well relatively speaking)

Sad as it is, we were chuffed to discover that our co-authored paper is the 57th most popular paper in Chalmers’ MindPapers database out of a total of 18,477 papers.