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September 12, 2017evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary Psychology and the Standard Social Science Model: Regaining the Middle Ground

David Sloan Wilson reports. Anthony BiglanB.F. Skinnerbehaviorismblank slateDavid Sloan WilsonDennis EmbryEvolutionary PsychologyJohn ToobyLeda CosmidesSteven C. Hayessteven pinker

July 6, 2012david livingstone smith, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary epistemology, evolutionary psychology, violence, war

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War

Look out for my chum David Livingstone Smith’s entry “War, Evolution, and the Nature of Human Nature“ Human evolutionViolence and Abuse

May 16, 2012david livingstone smith, essentialism, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, less than human, natural kinds, naturalism

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

My chum David Livingstone Smith has this piece in Psychology Today. David LivingstoneHumanPsychology TodaySocial science

May 3, 2012Darwin, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, John Gray, Jonathan Gottschall, liberalism, literature, religion, science, science wars

Stories, religion, politics and evolution

Staying with the literature theme of a few days ago and earlier today, here is another write up on Jonathan Gottschall’s new book and an article by JG himself here and a related review article of another book by John Gray here. E. O. WilsonJonathan GottschallJonathan HaidtLiteratureNew AtheismSolzhenitsynStorytelling

April 27, 2012e.o. wilson, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, sociobiology

E.O. Wilson: Still controversial after all these years

E.O. Wilson is still going strong and is still stirring things up after all these years. E.O. is on my mind since I’m co-authoring a paper on stigmergy and he is one of the major players. Here are write-ups of his latest work. None other than Michael Gazzaniga in the WSJ Washington Post New York Times…

April 25, 2012evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, Kristin Andrews, mind reading, mirror neurons, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy tv, Robert Lurz, social cognition, sociocognition

Animal Mindreading

Kristin Andrews and Robert Lurz discuss animals and mindreading. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencephilosophical psychology

January 30, 2012conservatism, David Eagleman, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, Jesse Prinz, liberalism, moral philosophy, moral psychology, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, plasticity, political philosophy, roger scruton, Susan Greenfield

Nature, nurture and liberal values

Roger Scruton weighs in on the nature/nurture debate via a threefold review. (Image another Steve Pyke portrait). Roger Scrutonsteve pyke

December 8, 2011austrian economics, bounded rationality, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive ecology, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, connectionism, cybernetics, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, freedom, individualism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, self organizing systems, self-referentiality, self-synchronizing systems, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology, social networking, social ontology, social psychology, socialism, sociocognition, sociology, spontaneous order, spontaneous orders

Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”

Here is a draft of my entry for the SAGE Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Hayekuse of knowledge in society

November 4, 2011active externalism, adam smith, advances in austrian econmics, brain science, Chiara Chelini, Chor-Yung Cheung, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, cybernetics, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, don ross, edward feser, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, enaction, enactivism, erol basar, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, friedrich hayek, Fuster, Giandomenica Becchio, Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo, hayek, James wible, Jan Willem Lindemans, joaquin fuster, joshua rust, neurophilosophy, phenomenology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, psychology, qualia, social epistemology, spontaneous orders, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, the sensory order, Thierry Aimar, Troy Camplin, walter weimer

Hayek in Mind: Editorial Introduction

Here is an uncorrected proof (do not cite) of my introduction to Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology. Further details will be made available just as soon as the publisher has updated the webpage for this book (according to Amazon the book will be made available on December 13th). A dedicated website to the volume can…

September 8, 2011behaviorism, brain, brain reading, brain science, Chiara Chelini, Chor-Yung Cheung, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, don ross, dualism, edward feser, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enaction, enactivism, epistemology, erol basar, evolutionary psychology, folk psychology, francesco varela, friedrich hayek, functionalism, Fuster, gerald edelman, ghost in the machine, Giandomenica Becchio, Gilbert Ryle, Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo, group cognition, hayek, individualism, James wible, Jan Willem Lindemans, joaquin fuster, joshua rust, knowing how knowing that, liberalism, mirror neurons, network theory, networks, neural correlates, neural networks, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, physicalism, Popper, quantum brain, reductionism, representationalism, self-referentiality, self-synchronizing systems, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic cognition, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, the sensory order, Thierry Aimar, Troy Camplin, walter weimer

Trailing Hayek in Mind

Here is the table of contents for my forthcoming (in press) edited volume focusing on The Sensory Order – this is the first salvo of shameless promotion. CONTENTS “SOCIALIZING” THE MIND AND “COGNITIVIZING” SOCIALITY Leslie Marsh “MARGINAL MEN”: WEIMER ON HAYEK Walter Weimer PART I: NEUROSCIENCE HAYEK IN TODAY’S COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE Joaquín Fuster THE NON-CARTESIAN…