Wonderful to see Douglas Hofstadter’s book I Am a Strange Loop win an LA Times Book Award. What passess as the literati these days needs to be exposed to a mind that is highly cultured, literary and that has unforced conceptual depth. See the Scientific American and the JASSS reviews from last year. Douglas Hofstadter
Thanks to Simon Garnier I discovered this wonderful website dedicated to representations of complexity. As a social epistemologist I have a particular interest in knowledge networks and social networks. The images that draw upon biology for inspiration are particular compelling – on aesthetic grounds alone. complexity
It was a nice surprise to see that philosopher of social science, Daniel Little, has joined the blogosphere. Motivated by (but not responding directly to) his posting “Who has social identity” I offer these thoughts. Philosophy has only recently begun to turn its attention to the notion of social identity, territory that sociologists, social anthropologists and historians…
This past Monday I presented a talk to the Advanced Seminar Program at the Chicago-based Zygon Center for Religion and Science and editorial home of the journal Zygon: Journal of Science & Religion. My host was Zygon’s editor Phil Hefner. The theme of this year’s seminar was The ‘Hard Problem’ – Consciousness, Experience, and Mind – my talk dealt…
Here is the fully published special issue of Cognitive Systems Research Volume 9, Issues 1-2, March 2008 2. Introduction to the special issue “Perspectives on Social Cognition” Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 9, Issues 1-2, March 2008, Pages 1-4 Leslie Marsh and Christian Onof 3. Functionalism and mental boundaries Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 9, Issues…
Social cognition is this year’s theme at the Summer Institute in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal.
Though I haven’t yet read Sandy Goldberg’s brand new book Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification I do look forward to doing so. I’d be interested to how Sandy’s work differs from Jessica Brown’s Anti-Individualism and Knowledge of a few years ago.
Update: A digital version of this essay is now available from the Journal of Mind and Behavior website – click here or here. Here is a final MS of my review essay on Dennett’s Breaking the Spell published in Journal of Mind and Behavior (Vol. 27 No. 3 & 4 Summer & Autumn 2006).
On my daily train commute into Boston I was asked by another regular commuter what book I was reading – I showed him Adams’ & Aizawa’s The Bounds of Cognition. After reading the dust jacket blurb he then gave a surprisingly detailed “man on the Clapham omnibus” account of what he took to be “the body…
Review by Roy Sugarman of Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior.
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