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Patricia Churchland

Having missed Pat Churchland’s talk at NEI this past October, it was great that she was in town for a full week of speaking engagements not to mention interviews and other demands being made on her time (and she is supposedly retired!). It was a pleasure to meet her (finally!) having followed her work over the…

a companion to michael oakeshott, aesthetics, british idealism, corey abel, david boucher, elizabeth corey, epistemology, experience and its modes, geoffrey thomas, idealism, kenneth mcintyre, kenneth minogue, liberal education, liberalism, martyn thompson, metaphysics, Noël Malcolm, Noël O’Sullivan, oakeshott, on human conduct, Paul franco, penn state, philosophical jurisprudence, philosophy of education, philosophy of history, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, rationalism in politics, Robert Devigne, robert grant, Steven Gerencser, timothy fuller

A Companion to Michael Oakeshott (Again)

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…

behaviorism, brain, brain reading, brain science, Chiara Chelini, Chor-Yung Cheung, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, don ross, dualism, edward feser, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enaction, enactivism, epistemology, erol basar, evolutionary psychology, folk psychology, francesco varela, friedrich hayek, functionalism, Fuster, gerald edelman, ghost in the machine, Giandomenica Becchio, Gilbert Ryle, Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo, group cognition, hayek, individualism, James wible, Jan Willem Lindemans, joaquin fuster, joshua rust, knowing how knowing that, liberalism, mirror neurons, network theory, networks, neural correlates, neural networks, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, physicalism, Popper, quantum brain, reductionism, representationalism, self-referentiality, self-synchronizing systems, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic cognition, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, the sensory order, Thierry Aimar, Troy Camplin, walter weimer

Trailing Hayek in Mind

Here is the table of contents for my forthcoming (in press) edited volume focusing on The Sensory Order – this is the first salvo of shameless promotion. CONTENTS “SOCIALIZING” THE MIND AND “COGNITIVIZING” SOCIALITY Leslie Marsh “MARGINAL MEN”: WEIMER ON HAYEK Walter Weimer PART I: NEUROSCIENCE HAYEK IN TODAY’S COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE Joaquín Fuster THE NON-CARTESIAN…

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…

active externalism, Andy Clark, cognition, david chalmers, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science

Spreading the Joy? Why the Machinery of Consciousness is (Probably) Still in the Head

Check out this recent(ish) paper by Andy Clark in Mind Vol. 118 . 472 . October 2009 Is consciousness all in the head, or might the minimal physical substrate for some forms of conscious experience include the goings on in the (rest of the) body and the world? Such a view might be dubbed (by analogy with…

active externalism, active perception, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, Boundaries of the Mind, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain reading, brain science, cognition, cognition in the wild, cognitive science, consciousness, cybernetics, cyborgs, Descartes, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, extended mind, externalism, John Dylan Haynes, neural correlates, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science

Noë: Does Thinking Happen In The Brain?

Speaking of Andy Clark and Alva Noë in the previous posting, here is Noë writing for NPR set to continue in another installment.