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September 7, 2011david livingstone smith, evolutionary psychology, less than human

Less than human

My chum David is still getting lot’s of coverage for Less Than Human – see this review at Metapsychology.

June 7, 2011david livingstone smith, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, killing, less than human

Less than Human

My chum David being interviewed by a local Portland magazine programme here and featured on the BBC.

May 24, 2011evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, g.a. cohen, Jonathan Gottschall, the rape of troy

Jonathan Gottschall’s The Rape of Troy

I had the good fortune to meet Jonathan Gottschall at a recent conference. This guy is young, brilliant and so self-effacing – but I’m hardly the only one to recognize this – see the write-up in The New York Times. His talent for deploying an another discipline in the service of another reminds me a…

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

April 17, 2011david livingstone smith, essentialism, ethics, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, less than human, neurophilosophy, neuroscience

Less Than Human

My chum David Livingstone Smith’s latest book is getting some good coverage. The latest review of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others can be found in Scientific American.

March 9, 2011brain, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, Eliminative Materialism, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, moral philosophy, mri, neural correlates, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, patricia churchland, paul churchland, philosophy of mind, value

Pat Churchland on the source of value

Another video (via David Livingstone Smith) of Pat Churchland plugging her and Paul’s forthcoming book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality. This talk is part of the The Great Debate conference Can Science Tell Us Right From Wrong?

March 5, 2011david livingstone smith, dehumanization, ethics, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, genocide, less than human, moral philosophy, war

A Philosophy of Genocide’s Roots

My chum David Livingstone Smith’s latest book (that I have been trailing) has just been reviewed in the New York Times. The subject matter is as timely as ever and is a cracking read accessible for a general audience and an academic audience.

January 5, 2011anthropology, cognitive science, david livingstone smith, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, homophobia, less than human, military propaganda, racism, xenophobia

Less Than Human

I want to give a plug to the soon to be released book by my chum David Livingstone Smith. DLS has that wonderful ability to make serious reading very accessible while never dumbing down the subject matter. Here is a just released UNE article on DLS. See here for the book’s Amazon page listing endorsements…

January 1, 2011Carlo Umilta, cognitive science, consciousness, Dennett, embodied cognition, embodiment, emotion, enaction, enactivism, eric schwitzbebel, evolutionary psychology, ezequiel di paolo, Frances Anderson, inside jokes, john stewart, louise barrett, matthew hurley, michelle maiese, neuromania, olivier gapenne, Paolo Legrenzi, philosophy of mind, reginald adams, things and places, zenon pylyshyn

Some Mind Titles for 2011

Some books to look out for in 2011: Also Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science (shame about the cringe-making subtitle that has all the hyperbolic clichés “toward,” “new” and that old favourite “paradigm.”) Neuromania: On the limits of brain science

November 7, 2010Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Boundaries of the Mind, Bounds of Cognition, brain science, Chalmers, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, cybernetics, cyborgs, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, global brain, Howard Rheingold, natural-born cyborgs, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, world wide web

Andy Clark Interview

Here is an interview conducted by Howard Rheingold, as he says motivated by Andy’s Natural-Born Cyborgs. Note Andy’s reference to stigmergic (swarm) behavior though he doesn’t actually use the term. (Via David Livingstone Smith and Mirko Farina).