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bernard baars, brain science, cognitive science, cognitive systems, connectionism, hayek, jj gibson, mind body, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, qualia, spontaneous order, the "hard" problem, the sensory order, walter weimer

Cognition and the Symbolic Processes: Hayek and Gibson

Here are some fuzzy but nevertheless recognizable Polaroid photos taken at the now legendary conference convened by Walter Weimer. Weimer was so crucial to bringing Hayek’s The Sensory Order back to life after it had “fallen still-born from the press”. In attendance was also J.J. Gibson who, though was favorably disposed towards TSO in the…

active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, cognition, cognition in the wild, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, collective intentionality, complex adaptive systems, complexity, consciousness, david chalmers, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, Julian Kiverstein, Miko Farina, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, situated cognition

Extended Mind: Special Section in TEOREMA

Here is a bunch of extended mind papers in the Spring issue of Teorema.

cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, frank Jackson, Keith Frankish, materialism, metaphysics, naturalism, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, ontology, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, qualia, reductionism, richard brown, zombies

Qualia on Philosophy TV

Richard Brown (ebullient blogger at Philosophy Sucks!) and Keith Frankish discuss qualia on Philosophy TV. Richard’s dog Frankie chimes in as well.

cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, embodied cognition, embodiment, Joel Krueger, Lawrence Shapiro, music, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science

Doing things with music

Two items of note (at least for me) from the excellent Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: great to see this journal flourishing. I recall a correspondence with an eminent emeritus professor of philosophy at McGill around 2000 who nearly had a coronary when I told him of my interest in phenomenology (he’s still with us…

brain, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, gary williams, Micah Allen, neural networks, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, plasticity, qualia, sociocognition

Consciousness, plasticity, and connectomics: the role of intersubjectivity in human cognition

Check out this just published paper by Micah Allen and Gary Williams in the open access journal Frontiers in Psychology. Consciousness is typically construed as being explainable purely in terms of either private, raw feels or higher-order, reflective representations. In contrast to this false dichotomy, we propose a new view of consciousness as an interactive,…

active externalism, active perception, Adams & Aizawa, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, colin klein, david chalmers, distributed cognition, embodied cognition, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, journal of mind and behavior, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, robert rupert

Klein reviews Rupert

At last Colin Klein’s terrific critical notice of Rob Rupert’s fine-grained critique Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind is now available in the latest issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior.