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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

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Hayek in Mind: Editorial Introduction

Here is an uncorrected proof (do not cite) of my introduction to Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology.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…

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…

Christian List, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, group agency, Philip Pettit, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, social epistemology, social facts, social identity, social networking, social ontology, social psychology

Group agency

Here’s a recent co-authored book from Christian List. CL is probably the leading theorist in this area and one of the best philosophers around who, not so long ago, was not affiliated with a philosophy department (I see that he now has a joint appointment with the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method). How…

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…

brain science, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, david palermo, Denny Proffitt, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, dualism, frank rosenblatt, gerald edelman, hayek, James wible, karl pribnam, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, qualia, social cognition, social connectionism, spontaneous orders, the sensory order, walter weimer, william butos

Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology

Having just delivered an edited volume entitled Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology to the publisher, this is an opportune time to make widely available, for the first time, some photographs so generously sent to me by Walt Weimer (contact made through the good offices of a few of his students, some featured in the photos…

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…

ants, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, neuron, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Swarm Cognition

Check out the latest themed issue of Swarm Intelligence. Here is the freely available introduction. Nice to see the term “cognition” used since I have been using the term in this regard for a few years.

Aaron Mishara, consciousness, hypnagogic hallucinations, Kafka, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, schizophrenia

Kafka, paranoic doubles and the brain: hypnagogic vs. hyper-reflexive models of disrupted self in neuropsychiatric disorders and anomalous conscious states

Here’s a fascinating article via a Prague-based (Charles University) neuroscientist and psychologist correspondent of mine Petr Bob. The article of course presupposes familiarity with Kafka’s writings and diaries. Here’s an excerpt from the article – the full article is freely available: What relevance do the neurobiological studies have to Kafka’s writings? Kafka deliberately scheduled his…

capital, collective intentionality, Hernando de Soto, institutional facts, language, philosophy of social science, political obligation, political philosophy, property rights, rule following, Searle, social constructivism, social facts, social identity, social ontology, social reality, speech acts

Smith on Searle and De Soto

A fascinating talk by (ontology kingpin) Barry Smith entitled “John Searle and Hernando de Soto: The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality.“