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Stigmergic Epistemology, Stigmergic Cognition
Final pre-press version of this paper is now available. Stigmergy
Susan Hurley
I was saddened to learn of the death of Susan Hurley today. Here is Alexander Bird’s announcement: I am very sorry to inform you of the death last night of Professor Susan Hurley. Susan had been suffering from cancer for some time and faced her illness with remarkable dignity. She continued to work until very…
How the body shapes the mind
Some thoughts on Shaun Gallagher’s How the Body Shapes the Mind, Oxford University Press What’s the ugliest Part of your body? What’s the ugliest Part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes But I think it’s your MIND… I think it’s your mind (Frank Zappa, 1968) Shaun Gallagher marshals…
Perspectives on Social Cognition: Contents
Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research – Perspectives on Social Cognition Some papers are now available as pre-press versions. 1. Introduction to Perspectives on Social Cognition – Leslie Marsh & Christian Onof 2. Functionalism and mental boundaries – Lawrence Shapiro 3. Consciousness and the social mind – Philip Robbins 4. Social relationships and groups: New…
Real People: Personal Identity without Thought Experiments
I have always thought that the topic of personal identity (PI) was the most fascinating topic in metaphysics and perhaps in all of philosophy. Furthermore, this view was enhanced by the consistently high quality of the PI literature attracting the likes of historical thinkers such as Locke, Butler and Hume – and recent thinkers such as Strawson (Peter), Williams,…
Gregory McCulloch: The Life of the Mind
Within the DEEDS literature, few if any, make reference to Gregory McCulloch’s The Life of the Mind (Routledge, 2003). The subtitle “An essay on phenomenological externalism” barely hints at McCulloch’s distinctiveness. According to Tim Crane’s forward to The Life of the Mind, it was a book that McCulloch had been working on for almost twenty years. And it shows.…
Hayek: Cognitive Scientist Avant la Lettre
The following is an abstract for my forthcoming (2009) contibution to: The Social Science of Hayek’s ‘The Sensory Order’ William N. Butos, Volume Editor Advances in Austrian Economics Hayek: Cognitive Scientist Avant la Lettre This paper conceives of Hayek’s overall project as presenting a theory of sociocognition, explication of which has a twofold purpose: 1.…
The Consciousness Industry
Jerry Fodor, in a review in the London Review of Books of Galen Strawson’s Consciousness and Its Place in Nature, opens the review with an ascerbic observation. I quote: Consciousness is all the rage just now. It boasts new journals of its very own, from which learned articles overflow. Neuropsychologists snap its picture (in colour)…
Hayek: father of social epistemology and cognitive scientist avant la lettre
Friedrich Hayek must rate as one the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. I take the view that his achievement is on a par with his cousin – Wittgenstein. Most people know Hayek for his political philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science and philosophical jurisprudence. The distinctive and unifying thread across all Hayek’s thought was…
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