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December 8, 2011austrian economics, bounded rationality, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive ecology, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, connectionism, cybernetics, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, freedom, individualism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, self organizing systems, self-referentiality, self-synchronizing systems, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology, social networking, social ontology, social psychology, socialism, sociocognition, sociology, spontaneous order, spontaneous orders

Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”

Here is a draft of my entry for the SAGE Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Hayekuse of knowledge in society

December 3, 2011cognitive science, nature-nurture, neurobiology, neuromania, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, social constructivism, social identity, social psychology, sociobiology, sociocognition

Sex on the Brain

Hat-tip to my chum David Livingstone Smith for bringing my attention to this article in Slate. genderneurosciencesex

November 13, 2011ants, collaboration, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Fukuyama, hobbes, human nature, locke, rousseau, social cognition, sociobiology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy

Here’s an article in this month’s Atlantic. Rejecting the views of classic political philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau that primitive humankind started out as a collection of scattered, unorganized individuals, Fukuyama writes: “Human sociability is not a historical or cultural acquisition, but something hardwired into human nature.” Nowhere is Wilson, who pioneered this view,…

October 10, 20111, brain, brain scans, brain science, Christoph Korn, Raymond Dolan, sociocognition, Tali Sharot

The Glass is Half Full: Optimism and the Brain

Here’s an article from Nature Neuroscience that is getting a lot of attention. Here is an interview with lead author Tali Sharot who has cornered the market on “optimism” research. BiologyFrontal lobeFunctional magnetic resonance imagingNature NeuroscienceNeurobiologyOptimismUniversity College London

October 4, 2011bentham, cognition, cognitive science, Daniel Bartels, David Pizarro, Mill, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, sociocognition, utilitarianism

Utilitarians are not nice people

Here’s an article entitled “Goodness has nothing to do with it” in The Economist. Here is Bartels’ and Pizarro’s actual paper published in Cognition.

September 8, 2011behaviorism, brain, brain reading, brain science, Chiara Chelini, Chor-Yung Cheung, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, don ross, dualism, edward feser, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enaction, enactivism, epistemology, erol basar, evolutionary psychology, folk psychology, francesco varela, friedrich hayek, functionalism, Fuster, gerald edelman, ghost in the machine, Giandomenica Becchio, Gilbert Ryle, Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo, group cognition, hayek, individualism, James wible, Jan Willem Lindemans, joaquin fuster, joshua rust, knowing how knowing that, liberalism, mirror neurons, network theory, networks, neural correlates, neural networks, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, physicalism, Popper, quantum brain, reductionism, representationalism, self-referentiality, self-synchronizing systems, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic cognition, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, the sensory order, Thierry Aimar, Troy Camplin, walter weimer

Trailing Hayek in Mind

Here is the table of contents for my forthcoming (in press) edited volume focusing on The Sensory Order – this is the first salvo of shameless promotion. CONTENTS “SOCIALIZING” THE MIND AND “COGNITIVIZING” SOCIALITY Leslie Marsh “MARGINAL MEN”: WEIMER ON HAYEK Walter Weimer PART I: NEUROSCIENCE HAYEK IN TODAY’S COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE Joaquín Fuster THE NON-CARTESIAN…

June 16, 2011active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, brain, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, cyborgs, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, embodied cognition, embodiment, enaction, extended mind, externalism, iphone, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, social cognition, social networking, sociocognition, stigmergy, TED

Chalmers’ TED talk on The Extended Mind

The Extended Mind – I think that this is the first time Dave has expanded the idea to social extension or networks. I recall that FB post he mentions. And Dave is trailing on his website his forthcoming book Constructing the World (OUP). BIG NEWS!! alzheimer’sCognitive scienceconstructing the worldExtended Mind

June 13, 2011active externalism, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Descartes, Embedded, embodied cognition, enaction, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, Georg Theiner, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, res cogitans extensa, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition

Res Cogitans Extensa: update

A few weeks ago I trailed the release of Georg Theiner’s Res Cogitans Extensa: A Philosophical Defense of the Extended Mind Thesis. Then there was no page devoted to Georg’s book by the publisher. Well now there is so check out the book’s page here. I have the book in hand – scanning it promises…

June 7, 2011alvin goldman, collective intentionality, epistemics, epistemology, group minds, hayek, jennifer lackey, Marx, philosophy of science, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social facts, sociocognition, sociology, sokal hoax

Goldman and Lackey on Social Epistemology on Philosophy TV

Here are two of the biggest names in analytical SE discussing the area on Philosophy TV. Another opportunity to plug the journal with which they are associated – EPISTEME.

May 29, 2011active externalism, active perception, Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, Boundaries of the Mind, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain science, Chalmers, consciousness, cyborgs, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, Georg Theiner, ghost in the machine, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, stigmergy

Res cogitans extensa: A Philosophical Defense of the Extended Mind Thesis

Look out for Georg Theiner’s book (publisher, Peter Lang) that is about to hit the shelves. I’m reproducing the cover blurb from the preprint he so kindly sent me. Georg has already done some good work for an Extended Mind project and I’m looking forward to his contribution to the stigmergy issue. Abstract for Res cogitans…