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February 28, 2014philosophers, philosophical fiction, philosophical jurisprudence, philosophical literature, philosophical logic, philosophical psychology, philosophy, philosophy and literature, philosophy of biology, philosophy of economics, philosophy of education, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, philosophy of time

Why Study Philosophy?

This from The Atlantic. Philosophyphilosophy of economicsPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of historyPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of mindphilosophy of religionPhilosophy of sciencephilosophy of social science

June 5, 2012philosophy, philosophy and literature, philosophy of biology, philosophy of economics, philosophy of education, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science

Philosophy is “dead” editorial

From The Guardian – here as well. Analytic philosophyAnglo-SaxonGodNewtonPhilosophyPhilosophy of scienceStephen HawkingUniverse

May 17, 2012consciousness, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, knowing how knowing that, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, rationalism, rationality, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, tacit knowledge

Non cogito, ergo sum

This from Intelligent Life.

May 16, 2012Herbert Colston, journal of mind and behavior, meaning, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, raymond gibbs

Interpreting Figurative Meaning

I’m looking for a suitably qualified reviewer for this new book, the review to appear in The Journal of Mind and Behavior.

April 9, 2012Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, social ontology, social reality, spontaneous order, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

The Emergence of the Mind: Hayek’s Account of Mental Phenomena as a Product of Spontaneous Physical and Social Orders

Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo’s intro from her excellent paper. Friedrich Hayek’s social theory is well known for his articulation of the paradigm of spontaneous orders that challenges the traditional distinction between what is natural and what is artificial. The problem that Hayek saw is that language and other social objects do not fall under either…

February 21, 2012freewill, moral philosophy, mri, neural correlates, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, political philosophy

Free will

Two articles on that old philosophical chestnut – free will: one from Intelligent Life (neurons v. free will) and one from the sister title, the Economist (Free will and politics). Cognitive scienceFree willIntelligent LifeneurosciencePhilosophy of mind

February 15, 2012Clark Glymour, cognition, Cognitive Revolution, cognitive science, consciousness, david livingstone smith, Descartes, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science

Freud’s Cognitive Revolution

Check out my colleague’s article in Psychology Today. PsychologyPsychology TodaySigmund Freud

December 13, 2011austrian economics, brain science, cognitive closure, consciousness, extended mind, externalism, networks, neural networks, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, social connectionism, social epistemology, sociocognition, the sensory order

Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology

The book was published today. Here is the publisher’s webpage and the Amazon page. CognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityFriedrich HayekHayekhebbphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychology

December 12, 2011neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, psychology

Review of Philosophy and Psychology

The new journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology has all its content freely available for download until December 31, 2011 A quarterly journal fostering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences of the mind The only journal covering the main philosophical and theoretical trends in the field of cognitive science in a format…

December 8, 2011austrian economics, bounded rationality, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive ecology, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, connectionism, cybernetics, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, freedom, individualism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, self organizing systems, self-referentiality, self-synchronizing systems, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology, social networking, social ontology, social psychology, socialism, sociocognition, sociology, spontaneous order, spontaneous orders

Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”

Here is a draft of my entry for the SAGE Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Hayekuse of knowledge in society