My recent co-authored paper now available to download through MindPapers. The abstract: To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex…
Introduction to Hayek – Hayek: Freedom’s Philosopher – Fighting the Planners (36 minutes) Inside the Hayek Equation – Hayek interview, Stanford 197? (30 minutes)
The following is an abstract for my forthcoming (2009) contibution to: The Social Science of Hayek’s ‘The Sensory Order’ William N. Butos, Volume Editor Advances in Austrian Economics Hayek: Cognitive Scientist Avant la Lettre This paper conceives of Hayek’s overall project as presenting a theory of sociocognition, explication of which has a twofold purpose: 1.…
An appreciation of David Wiggins’ Sameness and Substance (there is some notation later in this piece that needs to be rectified – some characters were lost in the copy and paste) —————————————————- The social constructionist argument takes the generic form of: 1. x need not have existed, or need be at all as it is.…
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Review published in Philosophical Psychology
Constructivism and Relativism in Oakeshott. In The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott —————————————————– This paper highlights a troubling tension within the philosophy of Michael Oakeshott. The relativistic stance that informs his radical constructivism gives license to socio-political conclusions we know Oakeshott couldn’t possibly accept. Politically, Oakeshott cannot accept constructionist social ontologies that are forged in…
In its most generic formulation, stigmergy (an optimization technique) is the phenomenon of indirect communication mediated by modifications of the environment.
Non-Cartesianism or non-representationalism in cognitive science is a loose and internally fluid philosophical and empirical coalition, comprising Dynamical –, Embodied –, Extended –, Distributed –, and Situated –, (DEEDS) theories of cognition.
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