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Hayek in Today’s Cognitive Neuroscience

Check out Joaquín Fuster’s recent paper: Only now, more than half a century after the publication of his theoretical book (Hayek, 1952), is the reaction to Hayek’s argument beginning to be heard. And it’s a positive reaction, now supported by facts. He used to say that without a theory the facts are silent. Now, belatedly reacting to…

Anil Seth, barry smith, behaviorism, brain science, chris frith, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, consciousness, david chalmers, mri, naturalism, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, physicalism, qualia, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, zombies

Can science ever explain consciousness?

Anil Seth, Chris Frith and Barry Smith (of Birkbeck, not Buffalo!) outline the topography in a podcast. Anil SethBarry SmithChris FrithCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionMagnetic resonance imagingneurosciencePhilosophy of mindqualia

active externalism, active perception, Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, david chalmers, David Spurrett, extended mind, externalism, Joseph Ulatowski, mark rowlands, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, richard menary, robert rupert, robert wilson, situated cognition, Stephen Cowley, susan hurley

Review of Menary’s (ed.) The Extended Mind

Richard Menary’s long time coming The Extended Mind is reviewed here by  Joseph Ulatowski. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionExtended MindneurosciencePhilosophy of mindqualia

cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, Colin McGinn, consciousness, Descartes, dualism, Eliminative Materialism, hayek, idealism, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, Panpsychism, philosophy of mind, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, the sensory order

Colin McGinn: All machine and no ghost?

Colin McGinn locates his position within philosophy of mind. Though not a fashionable position, I’m very sympathetic to it – and of course, it is a position that has much in common with Hayek. The “mysterianism” I advocate is really nothing more than the acknowledgment that human intelligence is a local, contingent, temporal, practical and…

Autopoiesis, computer science, consciousness, embodied cognition, embodiment, enaction, enactivism, externalism, francesco varela, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science

Remembering Varela

Four articles (and more) of interest to theorists interested in enaction: 1. Tom Froese’s new article in Adaptive Behavior: Critics of the paradigm of enaction have long argued that enactive principles will be unable to account for the traditional domain of orthodox cognitive science, namely “higher-level” cognition and specifically human cognition. Moreover, even many of the…

brain science, Edelman, erol basar, feynman, hebb, heisenberg, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, the sensory order

Views of Hayek, Hebb, and Heisenberg: Toward an Approach to Brain Functioning

Neuroscientist Erol Basar on Hayek F. A. Hayek’s The Sensory Order must rate as one of the most creative books written on general philosophy of neuroscience. Although Hayek was a Noble-prize winner in economics and was not educated as a neuroscientist, his book opens up a new window on neuroscience, and this window certainly offers…