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May 13, 2008arnon keren, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, inference to the best explanation, jennifer lackey, john greco, jonathan adler, marc moffett, patrick rysiew, paul faulkner, Peter Lipton, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology

Testimony abstracts

The abstracts for issue 4:3 of EPISTEME are now available. Apologies for not having them when the announcement was first made – a publisher glitch (to put is very politely).

May 7, 20081, distributed knowledge, epistemology, Neil Gross, political philosophy, relativism, Richard Rorty, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social identity, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

This review article/interview plugging a book by Neil Gross that deals with Richard Rorty’s intellectual journey is noteworthy because the writer of this book refers to the sociology of ideas (SI) as superseding the sociology of knowledge (SK): The old sociology of knowledge may have been terribly reductive — ideas are an expression of class interests…

May 3, 2008alvin goldman, david christensen, disagreement, episteme, epistemology, jennifer lackey, social epistemology, sociology

CFP: the significance of disagreement

EPISTEME will hold its sixth annual conference at Northwestern University on June 26-27, 2009. The 2009 meeting will focus on the epistemological significance of disagreement. Confirmed participants include: Michael Bergmann (Purdue), Stewart Cohen (Arizona State), Sherrilyn Roush (Berkeley) and Roger White (MIT). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Papers should be no more than 5,000 words, excluding notes and…

April 16, 2008arnon keren, authority, autonomy, epistemology, ethics, explanation, jennifer lackey, john greco, jonathan adler, marc moffett, patrick rysiew, paul faulkner, Peter Lipton, social epistemology, testimony, trust, truth

Perspectives on Testimony

Volume 4 Issue 3 of EPISTEME now available – see contents. To subscribe.

March 6, 2008Bounds of Cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, Economics, embodiment, epistemology, extended mind, hayek, Heidegger, leslie marsh, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Perspectives on Social Cognition

Here is the fully published special issue of Cognitive Systems Research Volume 9, Issues 1-2, March 2008 2. Introduction to the special issue “Perspectives on Social Cognition” Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 9, Issues 1-2, March 2008, Pages 1-4 Leslie Marsh and Christian Onof 3. Functionalism and mental boundaries Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 9, Issues…

February 19, 2008atheism, brights, cognitive science, Colin McGinn, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, epistemology, intelligent design, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, owen flanagan, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, psychology, religion, Rue, science

Naturalizing Religion

I notice that Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and the Centre for Anthropology and Mind have received a big grant for the “study of the cognitive science of religion” from the Templeton Foundation. Who’d have thought that the project of naturalizing religion would become so sexy – for reasons I won’t go…

February 9, 2008conspiracy theories, distributed knowledge, Economics, editorial projects, episteme, epistemology, social epistemology, social ontology

Free Content Access to EPISTEME

To promote Edinburgh University Press’s new content management system, the Press is offering free access to EPISTEME until the end of March. See here.