Press release cum interview for The Bounds of Cognition, a book I have already heartily recommended. I’m pleased to say that the authors are contributing to a themed issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior on the “extended mind” that I’m editing.
It seems that the notion of embodied cognition is seeing a spike in the release of new books – not to mention that the mainstream media has now picked up the idea. I’ve already mentioned the Boston Globe piece. I’ve since discovered that there is an NPR piece plugging the Blakeslees’ The Body Has a Mind of Its Own. Other recent similar titles…
On my daily train commute into Boston I was asked by another regular commuter what book I was reading – I showed him Adams’ & Aizawa’s The Bounds of Cognition. After reading the dust jacket blurb he then gave a surprisingly detailed “man on the Clapham omnibus” account of what he took to be “the body…
Withdrawn from project I’m very pleased to have been asked by the editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science to be a participant in a forthcoming symposium on Owen Flanagan’s recently published The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. The other participants are Greg Peterson (So. Dak. State); Ann Taves (UC Santa Barbara); Don Wiebe (Toronto) and, of…
Those following the recent McGinn-Honderich review kerfuffle might be interested to read Chomsky’s reticient but nonetheless combative contribution to a symposium on Margaret Boden’s Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science – see an earlier review by Harman. It begins . . . When I was asked to join a symposium on Margaret Boden’s history…
I can now make available a full version of my review of Dennett. This version is still in MS form: if you want to cite the article, I will send you an off-print. You can drop me a line.
This posting refers to this posting. Excerpt from my Polybius essay. Oakeshott (1983: 94) characteristically offers a brilliant analysis of the problem which he calls the ‘dry wall theory’. Keeping in mind Pedach’s and Walbank’s account of historical development, Oakeshott believes that though historical events are not themselves contingent, they are related to one another contingently.…
Review by Roy Sugarman of Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior.
The Functionalist’s Dilemma George Lakoff reviews Ray Jackendorf’s Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays on Mental Structure. Constructing Cognition Ethan Remmel reviews Katherine Nelson’s Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory.
Judging from the discussion on Leiter Reports the merits of McGinn’s review is sub judice. To be fair, there is a great deal of pap out there not all coming to the attention of first order minds like McGinn. In a footnote to the review, McGinn writes: The review that appears here is not as I originally wrote…
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