Evidence and Law: Free Download

episteme, epistemology, evidence, evidence and law, social epistemology

EUP have made available the complete special issue of EPISTEME Volume 5 Issue 3 on Evidence and Law as a free download.

Jerry Cohen dead

G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, g.a. cohen, gerald cohen, gerry cohen, Marx

The formidable mind that is Jerry Cohen is no longer. I have his latest Rescuing Justice and Equality on the back-burner and am now more than ever motivated to get to it. GEM de Ste Croix tried valiantly to apply Jerry’s seminal Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence to his brilliant The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. Update: Times On Line obituary. Another update: Jo Wolff, a student of Jerry’s, will be interviewed in an oral obituary.

EPISTEME 2010 – Edinburgh

cognitive ecology, episteme, epistemology, social epistemology

The 2010 EPISTEME conference will be held in Edinburgh. The theme – Cognitive Ecology. Conference page and call for papers here. A stellar line up has already begun to take shape.

The Metaphysics of Mind

active perception, Alastair Hannay, Andy Clark, Barry Dainton, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain science, Brenda Almond, Brian McLaughlin, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, consciousness, David Cockburn, distributed cognition, Eduard Marbach, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, evolutionary psychology, extended mind, Fred Adams, Galen Strawson, Geoffrey Madell, Howard Robinson, Jaegwon Kim, James Giles, Jason Brown, Julian Kiverstein, Ken Aizawa, Leemon McHenry, metaphysics, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, owen flanagan, Peter Simons, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, Pierfrancesco Basile, psychology, religion, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, Stephen Clark, Supersizing the Mind, susan hurley, the "hard" problem, Tim Crane, Timothy Sprigge, William Seager

This past weekend I attended the Timothy Sprigge Memorial Conference (see link to obituary by Jane O’Grady who was in attendence). I met Sprigge in 1997 at the Bradley conference at Harris-Manchester College Oxford, a time when I was very interested in the idealists. Funny how philosophical changes come and go – Sprigge, ever the outsider, is now of interest to current philosophy of mind. Anyway, this conference brought together a very diverse group of theorists in the most congenial of environments and I was able to meet a few of my intellectual heroes.

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Leemon McHenry (California State University, Northridge)

Sprigge’s Ontology of Consciousness

Pierfrancesco Basile (University of Bern)

It must be true—but how can it be? Some Remarks on Panpsychism and Mental Composition

Alastair Hannay (University of Oslo)

The Space We Share: Phenomenology and Metaphysics

Jason Brown (New York University Medical Center)

What is a Mental State?

Galen Strawson (University of Reading)

Fundamental Singleness: How to Turn the 2nd Paralogism into a Valid Argument

Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)

Explaining Consciousness: From Emergentism to A Priori Physicalism

William Seager (University of Toronto)

Concessionary Dualism and Physicalism

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Brian P. McLaughlin (Rutgers University)

Consciousness, Identity, and Explanation

Fred Adams (University of Delaware)

Consciousness: Why and Where?

Fred

Geoffrey Madell (University of Edinburgh)

Substance Dualism: You Know it Makes Sense

Ken Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana)

How Consciousness Can Safely Emerge

Ken

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David Cockburn (University of East Anglia)

Doubts About “Consciousness”

Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)

Locating the Conscious Mind

Andy

Howard Robinson (Central European University, Budapest)

Quality, Thought and Consciousness

Stephen Clark (University of Liverpool)

How to Become Unconscious

Eduard Marbach (University of Bern)

Is there a Metaphysics of Consciousness without a Phenomenology of Consciousness? Some thoughts derived from Husserl’s Philosophical Phenomenology

Brenda Almond (University of Hull)

Religious Consciousness: Revisiting the God of the Philosophers

Julian Kiverstein (University of Edinburgh)

The Metaphysics of Time Consciousness

James Giles (University of Guam)

The Metaphysics of Awareness in Taoist philosophy

Tim Crane (University College London)

Consciousness as Predicated of Human Beings

Tim

Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool)

Phenomenal Holism

Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin)

Consciousness for Four-Dimensionalists

Peter

Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology

cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of social science, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available – the theme is computer simulations – an topic that is seeing a great deal of growth. 

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The Extended Mind and Religious Thought

Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, embodiment, extended mind, Joel Krueger, Leonard Angel, leslie marsh, Lynne Rudder Baker, mark rowlands, Matthew Day, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, psychology, religion, robert rupert, robert wilson, social constructivism, Supersizing the Mind, susan hurley, teed rockwell

Here is an uncorrected proof of my introduction to the mini symposium on The Extended Mind to appear in Zygon. Vol. 44, no. 3 (September 2009).

Complexity 101

cognitive anthropology, cognitive modeling, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, epistemology, financial markets turmoil, particle swarm optimization, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Here are some nice distinctions drawn about complexity theory by someone coming to the subject with a fresh and curious mind.

The A.I. Report

artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, consciousness, distributed cognition, philosophy of mind, robotics, robots, situated cognition, the "hard" problem, Turing

Forbes features a symposium on A.I: it’s past, present and future.

The editor writes:

Can machines think? In 1950, Alan Turing, considered by some to be the father of modern computing, published a paper in which he proposed that, “If, during text-based conversation, a machine is indistinguishable from a human, then it could be said to be ‘thinking’ and, therefore, could be attributed with intelligence.” He predicted that a computer would pass this “Turing Test” by the end of the century. That hasn’t happened–yet. But the question continues to provoke and inspire. AI might be just around the corner, or it might be centuries away.

To this I might add, maybe never.

 

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