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Alzheimer's, brain damage, Claude Wischik, cognitive science, consciousness, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, rationality, reason

Alzheimer’s

Here’s a restrained and sensitive article from the Scotsman on Claude Wischik‘s work on Alzheimer’s disease. The tone of the article matches the low-key disposition and existential focus of Wischik. Speaking to an Alzheimic patient on a regular basis, I have often used synonyms for the metaphor of “tangles”: Wischik has spent 24 years studying the neurofibrillary ‘tangles’ that…

atheism, chomsky, chris frith, civil conversation, cognition, enlightenment, epistemology, grayling, mary midgley, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, psychology, rationality, reason, relativism, roger penrose, romanticism, social cognition, social epistemology, sociology

Reason with a capital “R”

Anthony Grayling has convened a “symposium” on Reason in the latest issue of the New Scientist. Grayling’s position is very predictable but credit to him and the editors for bringing together a diverse group who for the most part seem to disagree with his conception. Neuroscientist Chris Frith, mathematician Roger Penrose and philosopher Mary Midgley are…

cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, consciousness, distributed knowledge, hayek, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, Roger Koppl, self-referentiality, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociocognition, steve horwitz, the "hard" problem, the sensory order

The Contemporary Relevance of The Sensory Order

I’m pleased to discover that there’s a discussion going on at the blog The Austrian Economists relating to a posting by Steve Horwitz. Other luminaries such as Roger Koppl have chimed in. For the past year I’ve been working on a paper on the contemporary relevance of The Sensory Order – hence my keen interest. 

Bounds of Cognition, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, epistemology, explanation, extended mind, neurophilosophy, personal identity, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, psychology, relativism, robert wilson, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social identity, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Sociality

I received a message from Rob Wilson one of the most talented and broad-ranging philosopher-scientists around. He was updating me on what he’s been up to of late. He brought two things to my attention. 1. Rob has begun drafting the third instalment to his trilogy which he’s entitled Blood is Thicker than Water, nicht wahr? Terra Socialis: The Individual…