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Rob Wilson – Mind Spread

Tune into the live stream of Rob Wilson’s keynote talk at the ARPA. Rob is of course the author of the excellent Boundaries of the Mind.

active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, cognitive science, cognitive systems, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, enactivism, extended mind, externalism, john sutton, philosophy of mind, richard menary

Extended Mind Down Under

Here is a discussion between two of the major players in the extended mind literature – John Sutton and Richard Menary. “Some philosophers are now arguing that thoughts are not all in the head” – it’s been at least 12 years! But the idea is now spreading like wildfire.

active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, extended mind, externalism, Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina, Nivedita Gangopadhyay, philosophy of mind

Consciousness in Interaction: The Role of the Natural and Social Context in Shaping Consciousness

My chum Mirko Farina has alerted me to a high-powered collection he and co-author Julian Kiverstein are contributing to. Here is the table of contents. One of the intriguing chapter titles is by Andy Clark. (Mirko tells me the volume has been severely delayed). I’m also looking forward to Mirko’s review of another contributor to this…

Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, cyborgs, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, natural-born cyborgs, neural signals, neurophone, philosophy of mind

NeuroPhone

This is WILD – is this Andy Clark’s Natural-Born Cyborgs coming to full fruition? Thanks to my collaborator Marge Doyle for sending this my way. Check out this Award Abstract from the NSF and check out this paper by members of the Mobile Sensing Group at Dartmouth. Abstract Neural signals are everywhere just like mobile phones. We propose to…

Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, extended mind, externalism, Lawrence Shapiro, mark rowlands, robert wilson

James Bond and the Barking Dog: Evolution and Extended Cognition

Larry Shapiro has a new paper posted on his website. Prominent defenders of the extended cognition thesis have looked to evolutionary theory for support. Roughly, the idea is that natural selection leads one to expect that cognitive strategies should exploit the environment, and exploitation of the right sort results in a cognitive system that extends beyond the head…

cognition, cognitive science, duncan prichard, epistemic luck, epistemic virtue, epistemology, extended mind, externalism, philosophy of mind, social epistemology

Cognitive ability and the extended cognition thesis

Here’s a just published paper by Duncan Pritchard in Synthese. It’s reassuring to see epistemologists picking up on the extended mind thesis – the other notable epistemologist pursuing this line is Sandy Goldberg. This is the way things are going – I for one am working on a project that will be a major push in…

Anthony Chimero, Bounds of Cognition, cognitive science, embodiment, extended mind, externalism, Fred Adams, Justin Fisher, Ken Aizawa, philosophy of mind, radical embodied cognition, Rick Dale

Journal of Mind and Behavior 31: 1&2

The latest issue of JMB is now available. The pieces that will particularly interest my constituency are: (1) The Boundaries Still Stand: A Reply to Fisher  by Kenneth Aizawa, and (2) A Critical Notice of  Radical Embodied Cognitive Science by Anthony Chemero, reviewed by Rick Dale.