Here’s a very useful close-grained conspectus sharing the same title of an earlier piece by Susan Hurley. Unsurprisingly, Hayek nor Simon are nowhere to be seen and surprisingly Heylighen et al are referenced. complexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEpistemologyExtended MindExternalismFriedrich HayekHerbert SimonPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial epistemologySusan Hurley
Reviews in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The National Review (interview) of Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head. True freedom requires that “the actor is in touch with the world and other people, in comparison to which the autistic pseudo-autonomy of manufactured experiences is revealed as a pale substitute.” — KIRKUS These points can all be left…
Despite my (highly qualified) HEC commitments, I love reading people like Ken Aizawa (and Fred Adams) and others such as Rob Rupert who are really HEC’s best fiends. Yes, I said fiends (a nudge and a wink to Herzog’s superb documentary). These three are meticulous and fair critics, meticulous without ever resorting to point-scoring or being trivial.…
A new paper by Andy Clark Andy ClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended knowledgeExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindReliabilismsituated cognitionVirtue epistemology
Recent paper by Daniel Pearlberg and Timothy Schroeder CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgedonald davidsonEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Penultimate version. The aim of this article is to show that externalist accounts of cognition such as Clark and Chalmers’ (1998) “active externalism” lead to an explosion of knowledge that is caused by online resources such as Wikipedia and Google. I argue that externalist accounts of cognition imply that subjects who integrate mobile Internet access…
Yet another piece from the excellent Joel Krueger (as co-author). affective mindCognitionCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended cognitionExtended MindExternalismjoel kruegerphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research — penultimate version here. Cognitioncognitive abilityCognitive neurosciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionEpistemologyExtended cognitionExtended MindExternalismJ. Adam CarterJesper KallestrupKnowledgeMemoryPhilosophy of mindpropositional memory
This from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceBrainbrain imagingbrain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeethnographyExtended MindExternalismhuman brain projectneurosciencescience and technology studies
Another paper by Shaun this time coauthored with Jan Slaby (check out Jan’s website — lot’s of good stuff here). The concept of a socially extended mind suggests that our cognitive processes are extended not simply by the various tools and technologies we use, but by other minds in our intersubjective interactions, and more systematically by institutions that,…
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