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May 18, 2011active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, cognition, cognition in the wild, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, collective intentionality, complex adaptive systems, complexity, consciousness, david chalmers, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, Julian Kiverstein, Miko Farina, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, situated cognition

Extended Mind: Special Section in TEOREMA

Here is a bunch of extended mind papers in the Spring issue of Teorema.

May 16, 2011alcohol, beer, eric idle, philosophers, philosophy of mind, qualia, roger scruton, steven hales, wine

Beer and Philosophy or Drinking and Thinking

Here’s an article from the Huffington Post. Of course, we all know that booze and the philosopher are close friends. Regarding the relationship between the two, there are two schools of thought. 1. that the qualic experience (and alcohol) are part and parcel of creative thought processes. 2. Alcohol is needed to numb the philosopher’s…

May 6, 2011cognitive science, consciousness, Maggie Boden, moral philosophy, patricia churchland, philosophy of mind

Maggie Boden reviews Pat Churchland’s latest

Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality

May 6, 20114E, action, active externalism, active perception, Alva Noë, embodied cognition, embodiment, enaction, enactivism, extended mind, externalism, philosophy of mind, situated cognition

Alva Noë Interview

Here is an interview with Alva in the German language Frankfurter Rundschau. Here is a video interview with Alva setting out in very general terms his research interest. Click here for a Google translation.

May 5, 2011cognitive science, consciousness, david chalmers, extended mind, philosophy of mind, The Conscious Mind, zombies

Portrait of Chalmers

The many faces of subjective experience Here’s a man of genuine distinction who singlehandedly reinvigorated philosophy of mind with his The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (thanks to Chris Onof who gave it to me as a gift) not to mention Dave’s hand in the extended mind literature and selfless service to…

May 5, 2011ali g, chomsky, cognitive science, peter ludlow, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind

Chomsky philosophy of mind discussion

Here is an interview with Chomsky conducted by the very excellent Peter Ludlow. Here is another interview conducted by Ali G:

May 1, 2011cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, frank Jackson, Keith Frankish, materialism, metaphysics, naturalism, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, qualia, reductionism, richard brown, zombies

Qualia on Philosophy TV

Richard Brown (ebullient blogger at Philosophy Sucks!) and Keith Frankish discuss qualia on Philosophy TV. Richard’s dog Frankie chimes in as well.

May 1, 2011Darwin, Dennett, grayling, humanism, Ludwig Büchner, materialism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, richard dawkins, Thomas Huxley

Long before Dennett, Dawkins, Grayling and others there was . . .

Ludwig Büchner. According to Wikipedia: The extreme materialism of this work excited so much opposition that he was compelled to give up his post at Tübingen.

April 27, 2011philosophical logic, philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, wittgenstein

Recovered Wittgenstein material

Here is an article in The Guardian, the release coinciding with W’s birth (26 Apr.) and death (29 Apr.) dates.

April 25, 2011brain, cognitive science, locke, Molyneux's Problem, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, qualia

Molyneux’s Problem

Here’s a write-up in the New York Times trumpeting a paper that apparently resolves Molyneux’s Problem: Research published online April 10 in the journal Nature Neuroscience may have finally answered the question, which has vexed philosophers and scientists for more than 300 years.