Two versions the extended mind thesis

Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended mind, externalism, Katalin Farkas, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, situated cognition

Here’s a draft of a forthcoming paper I chanced across.

Strawson reviews Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow

cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, Daniel Kahneman, Galen Strawson, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind

Galen Strawson reviews Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow in The Guardian.

Sócrates, MD that is

brazil, football, medicine, philosophy, socrates, virtue

Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer and political agitator, died on December 4th, aged 57

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology

austrian economics, brain science, cognitive closure, consciousness, extended mind, externalism, networks, neural networks, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, social connectionism, social epistemology, sociocognition, the sensory order

The book was published today. Here is the publisher’s webpage and the Amazon page.

Review of Philosophy and Psychology

neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, psychology

The new journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology has all its content freely available for download until December 31, 2011

A quarterly journal fostering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences of the mind

The only journal covering the main philosophical and theoretical trends in the field of cognitive science in a format of thematic issues
Offers a platform for debate on recent research trends at the junction between philosophy, psychology and cognitive science
Explores the intersection of philosophy and the sciences of the mind
Includes themed issues with both invited and submitted contributions
Hosted at the Jean Nicod Institute, a research centre of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
The Review of Philosophy and Psychology provides a forum for discussion on topics of mutual interest to philosophers and psychologists, and fosters interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of philosophy and the sciences of the mind, including the neural, behavioural and social sciences.

The Review publishes theoretical works grounded in empirical research as well as empirical articles on issues of philosophical relevance. It also publishes themed issues featuring invited contributions from leading authors, together with submitted articles.

The quarterly Review of Philosophy and Psychology is hosted at the Jean Nicod Institute, a research centre of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Mind & Behavior: Latest Issue

bence nanay, function, modality, Osamu Kiritani, philosophy of mind

The latest issue of JMB is now available. It features an exchange between Bence Nanay and Osamu Kiritani.

Neuroswarm

bees, collaboration, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complexity, connectionism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, social connectionism, social epistemology, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, Thomas D. Seeley

This article is really creating a buzz (sorry!!) The idea has some resonance to an aspect of Hayek’s social epistemology (see the article that I just today uploaded).

In much the same way that synapses are strengthened while unused linkages weaken and wither away, so too are paths to salient social knowledge strengthened or weakened – “social connectionism,” if you will.