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Alzheimer's, brain damage, Claude Wischik, cognitive science, consciousness, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, rationality, reason

Alzheimer’s

Here’s a restrained and sensitive article from the Scotsman on Claude Wischik‘s work on Alzheimer’s disease. The tone of the article matches the low-key disposition and existential focus of Wischik. Speaking to an Alzheimic patient on a regular basis, I have often used synonyms for the metaphor of “tangles”: Wischik has spent 24 years studying the neurofibrillary ‘tangles’ that…

cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, economist, Faruk Gul, hayek, neuroeconomics, philosophy of mind, rationality, social epistemology, sociocognition, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order, Wolfgang Pesendorfer

Neuroeconomics

While I too am sceptical about the techno-ebullience associated with MRI scans what is interesting about the self-defeating claim in a cheekily entitled Economist article “Do economists need brains?” is this quote: neuroscience could not transform economics because what goes on inside the brain is irrelevant to the discipline. What matters are the decisions people take—in…

cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, consciousness, distributed knowledge, hayek, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, Roger Koppl, self-referentiality, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociocognition, steve horwitz, the "hard" problem, the sensory order

The Contemporary Relevance of The Sensory Order

I’m pleased to discover that there’s a discussion going on at the blog The Austrian Economists relating to a posting by Steve Horwitz. Other luminaries such as Roger Koppl have chimed in. For the past year I’ve been working on a paper on the contemporary relevance of The Sensory Order – hence my keen interest. 

buddhism, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, embodiment, extended mind, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, personal identity, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, social epistemology, social identity, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

Social Identity

In today’s Guardian there is an article entitled Who do you think I am? with the tag line “It’s all too easy to categorise people but it isn’t inevitable. We can still consider the alternatives.” The writer is quite correct so say that: Identity is a contemporary buzzword and goes onto list instances of its…