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October 16, 2010active externalism, adam smith, Adams & Aizawa, advances in austrian econmics, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, austrian economics, collective intentionality, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, free-flow of knowledge, hayek, iterative knowledge, open access, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, richard stallman, science, scientific publishing, social constructivism, social epistemology, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, systemsoriented social epistemology, The Knowledge Hub for Pathology

Knowledge Wants to be Free: From Hayek to the Hacker

My talk “Knowledge Wants to be Free: From Hayek to the Hacker” for the 2010 Wirth Conference at Simon Fraser University October 15 & 16, 2010 on “Austrian Views on Experts & Epistemic Monopolies.” I think the talk went down OK. Good to see some old friends and make new friends. Thanks to Wirth for sponsoring the…

October 1, 2010Amanda Nosko, constructivism, disclosure, Eileen Wooda, facebook, philosophy of social science, privacy, psychology, recommendation algorithm, Seija Molema, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social facts, social identity, social networking, social ontology, social psychology, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, trust, truth

All about me: Disclosure in online social networking profiles: The case of FACEBOOK

With today’s release of the film The Social Network some might be interested in a recent academic study published in Computers in Human Behavior.

September 26, 2010aggregation, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, consciousness, institutions, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, social constructivism, social epistemology, social facts, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

Searle’s Latest

Here’s a review of Searle’s Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization.

September 15, 2010epistemic systems, epistemology, expertise, extended cognitive systems, gloria origgi, publishing, science, social epistemology

The Scientific Publishing Industry

The Chronicle of Higher Education has picked up on a paper by Gloria Origgi published in a themed issue of Social Epistemology.

September 1, 2010cognition, cognitive science, duncan prichard, epistemic luck, epistemic virtue, epistemology, extended mind, externalism, philosophy of mind, social epistemology

Cognitive ability and the extended cognition thesis

Here’s a just published paper by Duncan Pritchard in Synthese. It’s reassuring to see epistemologists picking up on the extended mind thesis – the other notable epistemologist pursuing this line is Sandy Goldberg. This is the way things are going – I for one am working on a project that will be a major push in…

August 26, 2010alvin goldman, Christian List, Franz Dietrich, jennifer lackey, melissa koenig, michael strevens, miranda fricker, social cognition, social epistemology

New Studies in Social Epistemology

Here is a collection from OUP with a section devoted to SE (how times have changed) with some top-notch names anchored of course by Alvin Goldman. Special Theme: Social Epistemology Guest Editor: Alvin Goldman 8: Alvin Goldman: Systems-Oriented Social Epistemology 9: Franz Dietrich & Christian List: The Aggregation of Propositional Attitudes: Towards a General Theory…

July 27, 2010Edward Said, Ernest Gellner, Isaiah Berlin, liberty, London School of Economics, nationalism, oakeshott, philosophy, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociology

Ernest Gellner

Here is a review of an intellectual biography of Ernest Gellner.

June 22, 2010anthony quinton, episteme, materialism, metaphysics, oakeshott, political philosophy, social constructivism, social epistemology

Anthony (Lord) Quinton

I was sorry to learn of the death of Tony (Lord) Quinton. My first contact with him was in the late-80s. Geoff Thomas, my Birkbeck tutor (who himself had Quinton as an examiner at Oxford), wrote to Quinton asking if he’d care to grant a young student an hour to chat about Oakeshott. Within the…

May 23, 2010alvin goldman, Dennis Whitcomb, disagreement, episteme, epistemology, Judgment Aggregation, social epistemology, systems design, testimony

Social Epistemology: Essential Readings

Keep an eye out for this soon to be published anthology of papers. To my knowledge, this is the first such collection of analytically orientated papers on social epistemology. Some of the stellar line-up has previously appeared in EPISTEME.