The Mind of the Market
Tyler Cowen’s Washington Post review of Michael Shermer’s The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales From Evolutionary Economics.
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Cognition unbound
It seems that the notion of embodied cognition is seeing a spike in the release of new books – not to mention that the mainstream media has now picked up the idea. I’ve already mentioned the Boston Globe piece. I’ve since discovered that there is an NPR piece plugging the Blakeslees’ The Body Has a Mind of Its Own. Other recent similar titles…
CogSci 2008
30th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY July 23-26, 2008 Washington DC The Cognitive Science Society wishes it to be known that the deadline for Member Abstract submissions for CogSci 2008 is February 1, the same as all other submission categories. Unlike past practice there will not be an April/May submission opportunity this year.…
Social Neuroscience review
Review by Roy Sugarman of Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior.
Journal of Mind and Behavior
I’ve recently become the Associate Reviews Editor of the Journal of Mind and Behavior (JMB). JMB is a well-regarded refereed journal, now in its 27th year, with an impressive subscription base. What I find congenial is that JMB appeals to a multidisciplinary audience, offering a healthy and ecumenical dialogue. Subject areas include: The psychology, philosophy,and sociology of experimentation and…
Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science
A nice review of Maggie Boden’s Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science in American Scientist by Gil Harman.
Brights or the “New” Atheism
Atheism is big publishing business these days. The rash of recent bestsellers has been dubbed the “New” Atheism – and the loose coalition of those who subsribe to the naturalism promoted across these books – as Brights. I want to make four points: 1. I resent the haughtiness of the term “bright”. The term fails to capture many…
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