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June 8, 2008cognitive science, Colin McGinn, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, Economics, Edelman, extended mind, Fuster, hayek, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, qualia, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, the sensory order

Hayek: Cognitive Scientist Avant La Lettre

Here is a PowerPoint slide-show intended to accompany my recent talk at Sussex. PowerPoint

June 6, 2008cognitive science, Jonah Lehrer, memetics, psychology, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology, trust

The Memetics of Bullshit

Jonah Lehrer has a nice article on the memetics of social cognition. So much of what passes for “knowledge” and is transmitted and generated through the media, seems to have this character. This is what I have termed media “glove puppetry” – glossy people with an ideological, sentimental or showbiz hand up their arse.

June 6, 2008connectionism, consciousness, conservatism, distributed knowledge, Economics, epistemology, hayek, Jesse Larner, liberalism, oakeshott, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology

Whose Hayek?

In a recent article in Dessent entitled “Who’s Afraid of Friedrich Hayek? The Obvious Truths and Mystical Fallacies of a Hero of the Right” Jesse Larner expresses his surprise that he finds Hayek to be “nowhere near as extreme as his ideological descendants” and “not the cynic I had braced for.” It is reassuring to know that…

May 18, 2008Bounds of Cognition, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, epistemology, explanation, extended mind, neurophilosophy, personal identity, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, psychology, relativism, robert wilson, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social identity, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Sociality

I received a message from Rob Wilson one of the most talented and broad-ranging philosopher-scientists around. He was updating me on what he’s been up to of late. He brought two things to my attention. 1. Rob has begun drafting the third instalment to his trilogy which he’s entitled Blood is Thicker than Water, nicht wahr? Terra Socialis: The Individual…

May 17, 2008aggregation, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, distributed knowledge, Economics, epistemology, political philosophy, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Formal Modeling in Social Epistemology

I don’t normally plug conferences but this one is unsual in that it falls squarely within my current research interests. Check out the conference webpage here.

May 13, 2008arnon keren, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, inference to the best explanation, jennifer lackey, john greco, jonathan adler, marc moffett, patrick rysiew, paul faulkner, Peter Lipton, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology

Testimony abstracts

The abstracts for issue 4:3 of EPISTEME are now available. Apologies for not having them when the announcement was first made – a publisher glitch (to put is very politely).

May 9, 2008Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, Chalmers, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, psychology, social epistemology, sociocognition

Gaslighting: Cognitive Sabotage in the Extended Mind

Here’s an interesting take on the notion of extended mind from the always thoughtful Susannah Devitt. I look forward to reading the complete paper.

May 7, 20081, distributed knowledge, epistemology, Neil Gross, political philosophy, relativism, Richard Rorty, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social identity, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

Sociology of ideas

This review article/interview plugging a book by Neil Gross that deals with Richard Rorty’s intellectual journey is noteworthy because the writer of this book refers to the sociology of ideas (SI) as superseding the sociology of knowledge (SK): The old sociology of knowledge may have been terribly reductive — ideas are an expression of class interests…

May 6, 2008Bounds of Cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, psychology, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, stigmergy

Cognitive Scaffolding

This paper by Naomi Rokotnitz from a recently held conference featuring Andy Clark.

April 29, 2008Bounds of Cognition, brain damage, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, personal identity, philosophy of mind, psychology, scientific american, social cognition, sociocognition, the "hard" problem

I am a strange loop

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