Here is the recently published book by my chum Erol Başar who as it happens is also contributing to my forthcoming edited book entitled Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology. Not surprisingly, there is much reference to Hayek’s The Sensory Order peppered throughout Erol’s book most notably in section 2.12 (pp. 39-41). Other distinguished neuroscientists who appreciate…
Here is the Symphony of Science‘s latest music video – “Ode to the Brain”. “Ode to the Brain” is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scientists Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Bill Nye, and Oliver Sacks, it covers different aspects the…
We know that extended mind discussion is entering unlikley quarters. The same it seems is happening with embodiment. Check out this recent paper “Embodied economics: how bodily information shapes the social coordination dynamics of decision-making” by Olivier Oullier and Frederic Basso. To date, experiments in economics are restricted to situations in which individuals are not influenced by the physical…
Stanford University News New York Times I Programmer Rumelhart was enormously important in the 1980s in reviving this neural network approach to language and cognition Steven Pinker
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?
Shaun Gallagher known primarily for his work on embodiment and phenomenology is extending (pardon the gratuitous use of this term) his thinking to include the social dimension in a forthcoming talk in Montreal. (Friday, February 18th 2011, from 3 p.m. at UQAM, room DS-1950 – Métro Berri-UQAM, pavillon De Sève). The abstract posted: I argue…
Here’s a fascinating article via a Prague-based (Charles University) neuroscientist and psychologist correspondent of mine Petr Bob. The article of course presupposes familiarity with Kafka’s writings and diaries. Here’s an excerpt from the article – the full article is freely available: What relevance do the neurobiological studies have to Kafka’s writings? Kafka deliberately scheduled his…
Via Pete Mandik at Brain Hammer here is a rather snippy review by Raymond Tallis in the WSJ on V. S. Ramachandran’s latest which just yesterday I was leafing through. Is this the opening salvo of a slanging match akin to the APA Eastern Division meeting a few years back with Dennett vs. Bennett and Hacker? The…
Not a deep surprise but still nice to see some empirical work coming through. Check out this brief report just published online in Nature Neuroscience. The upshot: participants with larger amygdalas typically had more people in their social lives and maintained more complex relationships.
Yet another installment on mind in the NYT – this time from the highly distinguished and very influential Tyler Burge.
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