Hot on the heels of Andy Clark’s Supersizing the Mind comes yet another “extended mind” type book with a colorful title Out of Our Heads, the writer Alva Noë. Noë is one of the sharpest guys around – his last book Action in Perception has established itself as a recent classic. Great to see the publisher on the ball by properly plugging the book with an Edge video interview included. The endorsements come from a “whose who” – Putnam for one. Can’t wait.
Here’s an article that talks about using mechanical drones to efficiently monitor the vast area that is Australia’s bush fire zone. The article mentions Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and stigmergy – two notions that are of particular interest to my work.
The article: Learning from birds to study fires on the fly
It seems to me that the practice of Wing Chun cries out for a philosophical and empirical discussion – something I have yet to come across. Specifically, Wing Chun’s emphasis on “bodily awareness” or sensitivity along with an Occam-like approach to movement, would be of interest to the embodiment and phenomenology literature. See the Chi Sao demonstration below:
Another great online service (a companion to MindPapers) has been brought to fruition by David Chalmers, David Bourget and Wolfgang Schwarz.
The latest issue of EPISTEME is a terrific bumper issue devoted to this fascinating topic. As if that’s not news enough, it is available for free download – hurry while stocks last! As plugged by Leiter.
Table of Contents – Evidence and Law
In case you haven’t come across this, a posthumous article by Susan Hurley entitled “The shared circuits model (SCM): How control, mirroring, and simulation can enable imitation, deliberation, and mindreading” along with responses, has been posted on Susan’s Memorial Conference website.
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Stanley Fish in the New York Times blog invokes Michael Oakeshott in considering the debate between education seen in purely instrumental terms vs. education as having intrinsic value as an introduction into the postulates of our culture. Only the other night I caught a news item where everyone was talking in terms of a university education increasing the earning potential (even though the figures are hotly contested). Talk of an education was conspicuously missing.
