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March 26, 2012alvin goldman, Chiara Chelini, mirror neurons, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, simulation, social cognition, sociocognition, spontaneous order

Hayek’s Self-organizing Mental Order and Folk-Psychological Theories of the Mind

Here is the Introduction to Chiara Chelini’s paper, the full version available here. Humans are social creatures and they deeply rely on mentalizing, which aims at understanding other people behaviours and formulating expectations about their future actions. The existence of inner mental states has been postulated in order to give an explanatory account of the…

February 17, 2011action, active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, cognitive science, david chalmers, extended mind, neurophilosophy, Nivedita Gangopadhyay, representationalism, simulation, social cognition, sociocognition

The extended mind: born to be wild? A lesson from action-understanding

Here is a new paper from Nivedita Gangopadhyay. Also check out her recent paper for the collection I edited.

September 9, 2009cognitive modeling, collective intentionality, computational intelligence, computer simulations, episteme, epistemology, Igor Douven, philosophy of social science, simulation, social epistemology

Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology

Another reminder: check out the special themed EPISTEME issue edited by Igor Douven.

January 27, 2009active perception, Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, embodiment, mind reading, mirror neurons, simulation, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, susan hurley

Hurley: The shared circuits model

In case you haven’t come across this, a posthumous article by Susan Hurley entitled “The shared circuits model (SCM): How control, mirroring, and simulation can enable imitation, deliberation, and mindreading” along with responses, has been posted on Susan’s Memorial Conference website.