Dreyfus on Embodiment

Here’s a two-parter with Hubert Dreyfus on embodiment – I haven’t listened to the whole talk but I recall first seeing Dreyfus being interviewed by the very excellent popularizer Bryan Magee  some 25 years ago.

Music of the Hemispheres

Check out philosopher Dan Lloyd’s film project. On the film site there are several videos of different brain states worth watching. Dan is, of course, no stranger to using other modalities to communicate his thoughts on consciousness – his book Radiant Cool is a classic in the genre.

Inside each of us, at every moment, a symphony plays. It’s the symphony of consciousness, but at the same time it’s the symphony of the brain.
– Dan Lloyd

Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action

Check out this new book edited by two very good philosophers. A stellar line-up indeed – a book that will no doubt become the benchmark to the knowing how literature.

Consciousness: Charlie Rose

The Charlie Rose Brain Series 2: Consciousness with Eric Kandel of Columbia University, Patricia Churchland of University of California, San Diego, Stanislas Dehaene of College De France, Nicholas Schiff of Weill Cornell Medical College and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia.

Two versions the extended mind thesis

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

Strawson reviews Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow

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

Sócrates, MD that is

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

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