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August 29, 2011collaboration, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, episteme, epistemology, science, social epistemology

Collective knowledge and science

The themed October 2010 issue of EPISTEME is freely available for download.

August 5, 2011alvin goldman, cognition, collective intentionality, episteme, epistemology, evidence, extended mind, externalism, individualism, memory, new books in philosophy, philosophy of mind, Putnam, Reliabilism, relying on others, Robert B. Talisse, robert nozick, sandy goldberg, social epistemology, testimony

Sandy Goldberg’s “extendedness” hypothesis

Here is an excellent website I’ve come across called New Books in Philosophy. One of the people behind this enterprise is Robert Talisse whose work I know from two articles in EPISTEME. Robert interviews Sandy Goldberg about his new book. Here’s an hour long audio discussion.

August 3, 20114E, active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, Casey Rufener, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, epistemology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, four-color-problem, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, Res Cogitans

Extending the Extended Mind to the Philosophy of Mathematics

Here’s a paper I chanced upon. The full title: “The Four-Color Theorem Solved, Again: Extending the Extended Mind to the Philosophy of Mathematics” (I’ve just noticed that Ken Aizawa has already beat me to the punch!).

June 23, 2011Elizabeth Anderson, episteme, epistemology, Erik J. Olsson, Max Albert, michael strevens, social epistemology

EPISTEME: 8:2 now available

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June 7, 2011alvin goldman, collective intentionality, epistemics, epistemology, group minds, hayek, jennifer lackey, Marx, philosophy of science, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social facts, sociocognition, sociology, sokal hoax

Goldman and Lackey on Social Epistemology on Philosophy TV

Here are two of the biggest names in analytical SE discussing the area on Philosophy TV. Another opportunity to plug the journal with which they are associated – EPISTEME.

May 8, 2011artificial intelligence, austrian economics, brain science, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complex adaptive systems, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, hayek, mind body, neural networks, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, qualia, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, socialism, sociobiology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

Friedrich Hayek

Born on this day in 1899

May 7, 2011atheism, conservatism, david hume, epistemology, hume, philosophy, political philosophy, ROBERT ZARETSKY

Dear dear David . . . we salute you

A nice piece (via my chum David Livingstone Smith) entitled “A Philosopher in Love“: The “chief triumph of art and philosophy,” he wrote years before meeting Boufflers, is that it “refines the temper” and “points out to us those dispositions which we should endeavor to attain, by a constant bent of mind and by repeated…

May 4, 2011alvin goldman, Christian List, Christopher Thompson, Don Fallis, episteme, epistemology, Frederick F. Schmitt, Igor Douven, Jack Lyons, Jason Stanley, jennifer lackey, Jeremy Fantl, Jessica Brown, Jonathan Schaffer, Jonathan Weinberg, Matthew McGrath, Michael Weisberg, Mikkel Gerken, philosophy, sandy goldberg, social epistemology

EPISTEME: A Move and Reincarnation

EPISTEME announces an impending move and transformation. With the first issue of 2012 we begin publication with Cambridge University Press and expand our scope from social epistemology specifically to all of epistemology. Our new title will be: EPISTEME, A Journal of Individual and Social Epistemology. Since 2004 EPISTEME has published with Edinburgh University Press. With Cambridge…

March 3, 2011bosanquet, bradley, british idealism, epistemology, idealism, metaphysics, personal identity, self, situated cognition, TH Green

British Idealism and the concept of the self

I don’t normally post conference calls or CFP but this conference has appeal to me. I did attend the Bradley Society conference in about 1997 at Harris Manchester hosted by Bill Mander and had a great time there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: 27th – 29th August, 2013 Location: Harris Manchester College, Oxford Idealism dominated British philosophy during…