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Werner Herzog

I’ve agreed to review Brad Prager’s The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth for the Journal of Mind & Behavior. As an “art-form” film attracts, at best the juvenile mind, or at worst, the pseudo intellect: Herzog is an island of artistic authenticity and integrity in a sea of vulgarity and schlock. I’m pleased that there now exists a…

Hayek: Cognitive Scientist Avant la Lettre

The following is an abstract for my forthcoming (2009) contibution to: The Social Science of Hayek’s ‘The Sensory Order’ William N. Butos, Volume Editor Advances in Austrian Economics Hayek: Cognitive Scientist Avant la Lettre This paper conceives of Hayek’s overall project as presenting a theory of sociocognition, explication of which has a twofold purpose: 1.…

Extended Mind II

 Update This issue is scheduled to appear in the Autumn of 2008. All accepted papers will  subject to the usual refereeing process. The contributors:  Leonard Angel (Douglas College) Lynne Baker (UMass Amherst)  Matthew Day (Florida State)  Joel Krueger (Copenhagen) Leslie Marsh (Sussex)  Teed Rockwell (Sonoma State) Mark Rowlands (Miami)

Mindscapes and Landscapes: The Extended Mind

It’s been ten years since a snappy and provocative paper by Andy Clark and David Chalmers (1998) audaciously burst upon the philosophical scene. Given that the paper had been rejected three years earlier by three major journals (Chalmers 2008, 42), it must surely have come as an enormous surprise to the authors that a veritable…

Ryle and Oakeshott on the knowing-how/knowing-that distinction

Ryle   Oakeshott I presented this paper at the third international Michael Oakeshott Association conference. ——————————————- Abstract: Politics make a call upon knowledge. Consequently, it is not irrelevant to inquire into the kind of knowledge which is involved . . . (Rationalism in politics, p. 45) Gilbert Ryle’s ‘Knowing How/Knowing That’ distinction gave crisp articulation to a…