Alva Noë takes the Opinionator slot. What is striking about neuroaesthetics is not so much the fact that it has failed to produce interesting or surprising results about art, but rather the fact that no one — not the scientists, and not the artists and art historians — seem to have minded, or even noticed. What…
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Hat-tip to my chum David Livingstone Smith for bringing my attention to this article in Slate. genderneurosciencesex
Here’s a recently published paper by David DeMoss.
Here’s a new book to be published early next year by Alva Noë entitled Varieties of Presence. If anyone cares to review it for The Journal of Mind and Behavior, an outlet that has featured some of the best essays in the situated cognition genre, drop me a line. (Offer now closed).
Here is the very excellent obituarist Jane O’Grady on the late Peter Goldie whom I met very briefly in a pub near UCL. I met Jane some eight years ago at a conference in, I think, Tunbridge Wells. She was a fascinating person to talk to and told me about the process of obituary writing, much…
Here is an uncorrected proof (do not cite) of my introduction to Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology. Further details will be made available just as soon as the publisher has updated the webpage for this book (according to Amazon the book will be made available on December 13th). A dedicated website to the volume can…
We know it’s been a long time in coming but we have some blindingly superb essays comprising this volume. In lieu of conventional abstracts here is an extract from Paul and my introductory essay. For a full table of contents and a dedicated website see here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Editorial Extract The first two essays deal with…
Just when you thought the extended mind literature couldn’t be put to more unusual use, here is a forthcoming talk by Michele Merritt who just happens to have been supervised by none other than Shaun Gallagher and Rebecca Kukla. Also on her committee was Andy Clark. Check out Michel’s recent paper for Philosophical Psychology “The Cure…
Here’s an article entitled “Goodness has nothing to do with it” in The Economist. Here is Bartels’ and Pizarro’s actual paper published in Cognition.
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