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Robert Haskell

(1938-2010) My friend and colleague Robert Haskell passed away today. Rob was a very gentle, kind and generous man, a man with simple tastes but a man with immense philosophical sophistication. An example of his philosophical breadth and depth is his last published paper “The Access Paradox in Analogical Reasoning and Transfer: Whither Invariance?” Journal…

active externalism, active perception, Adams and Aizawa, Alva Noë, Alzheimer's, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, Bounds of Cognition, brain science, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, cognitive systems research, colin allen, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, consciousness, cyborgs, dan weiskopf, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, duncan prichard, Embedded, embodiment, enactivism, Evan Thompson, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, feedback, folk psychology, francesco varela, Fred Adams, Georg Theiner, mark rowlands, Matthew Barker, metaphysics, Nivedita Gangopadhyay, philip robbins, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, robert goldstone, robert rupert, robert wilson, sandy goldberg, Supersizing the Mind, susan hurley, Zoe Drayson

Cognitive Science Research: Extended Mind Themed Issue

Here is my introduction to the themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research. The full collection is now available here.

active perception, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, autonomy, brain scans, brain science, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, collective intentionality, complexity, concept of mind, consciousness, cybernetics, cyborgs, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, Dennett, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Dorothée Legrand, Eliminative Materialism, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, Enacted, enactivism, Evan Thompson, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, functionalism, ghost in the machine, Gilbert Ryle, intropection, journal of mind and behavior, knowing how knowing that, mark rowlands, memory, metaphysics, mind body, Mind in Life, mirror neurons, nature-nurture, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, qualia, representationalism, Searle, sensation, situated cognition, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology, spontaneous order, susan hurley, the "hard" problem, turing test, varela

Mind in Life

I’ve just completed reading Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind, a work which I heartily endorse as the best statement yet of the enactivist theory of mind. I especially like his taking on the philosopher’s zombie and his chapter on Empathy and Enculturation. Last, but by no means least,…

artificial intelligence, austrian economics, behaviorism, brain science, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, cybernetics, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Edelman, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, Enacted, enactivism, epistemology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, frame problem, frank rosenblatt, functionalism, gerald edelman, Gilbert Ryle, hayek, hayek machine, hermeneutics, Inevitability Thesis, intentionality, knowing how knowing that, leslie marsh, Mass Collaboration, metaphysics, mind body, networks, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, qualia, rationality, representationalism, Road to Serfdom, self-referentiality, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociology, spontaneous order, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, the "hard" problem, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

Hayek: Cognitive scientist Avant la Lettre

My published article is now available from here. Check out the full table of contents for this volume.

advances in austrian econmics, austrian economics, Bill Butos, brain science, bruce caldwell, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive ecology, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, consciousness, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Edelman, Embedded, embodiment, enactivism, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, Fuster, gerald edelman, Gilbert Ryle, hayek, Inevitability Thesis, knowing how knowing that, leslie marsh, liberalism, mind body, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, qualia, rationality, reason, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, socialism, sociology, spontaneous order, stigmergy, the "hard" problem, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

The Social Science of Hayek’s The Sensory Order

Here are the publisher’s details for this soon-to-be released volume that includes my paper “Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre“

Andy Clark, austrian economics, brain science, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive ecology, cognitive science, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Edelman, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, Evan Thompson, evolutionary psychology, extended mind, externalism, hayek, mind body, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, qualia, representationalism, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, spontaneous order, the "hard" problem, the sensory order, varela

Embodied Economics

Here’s a freely available download of an article entitled “Embodied economics: how bodily information shapes the social coordination dynamics of decision-making” from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The article references many of the major embodiment theorists and refreshingly there is much on Hayek and of course The Sensory Order.

Andy Clark, ants, austrian economics, behaviorism, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain science, bruce caldwell, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive ecology, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, consciousness, david chalmers, Dennett, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, dualism, Economics, Edelman, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, evolutionary psychology, explanation, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, frame problem, frank rosenblatt, functionalism, Fuster, gerald edelman, Gilbert Ryle, hayek, Inevitability Thesis, intentionality, joaquin fuster, knowing how knowing that, leslie marsh, liberty, memetics, metaphysics, michael oakeshott, mind body, networks, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, plasticity, political philosophy, psychology, rationality, representationalism, science, self-referentiality, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, socialism, sociocognition, sociology, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, the "hard" problem, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre

Here is the uncorrected proof of my essay – do not cite.

Ana Cordeiro dos Santos, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, computer simulations, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, episteme, epistemology, Experimental Economics, Jack Vromen, philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, Uskali Mäki

The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics

A new book by Ana Cordeiro dos Santos has come to my attention. Aside from the title which caught my eye – The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics – what recommends checking the book out is that Ana’s pedigree is notable – her PhD was supervised by Uskali Mäki and Jack Vromen, both top-draw minds…