Georg Theiner has made available a draft copy of his intro to a special issue (Writing in Mind) “Language, Literacy, and Media Theory: Exploring the Cultural History of the Extended Mind“. I notice that he references Marshall McLuhan whose famous slogan “the medium is the message” informs the start-up company that I’m the co-founder of. Georg…
Another extended mind themed issue from Cognitive Systems Research, the anchor paper being Shaun Gallagher’s The Socially Extended Mind. Here is an extract from the issue’s Editorial introduction: Socializing the extended mind by Michele Merritt , Somogy Varga, and Mog Stapleton Research at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science has been a dynamically evolving and rapidly growing…
What a terrific idea for a poster: Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid ChalmersExtended MindExternalismPhilosophy of mind
Things Fall Apart (an aside: the man best known for this phrase). CognitionCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnessethicsmetaphysicsNatural selectionPhilip KitcherPhilosophy of mindPhilosophy of scienceReligionthomas nagelvalue
This article from the latest issue of JMB. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid Chalmersdualismmind-bodymind-brainpanpsychismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualia
This slight piece from NPR Artificial intelligenceCognitioncognitive closureCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceColin McGinnconsciousnessDavid ChalmersHard problem of consciousnessmind-bodyPhilosophy of mindRay Kurzweilthomas nagel
Here is the intro and conclusion to Chris and my paper: To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex communities of…
Another interesting paper by Shaun (OK, I know the image is associated with William’s classic work but I like the image and it’s salient). . CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceExtended MindExternalismmetaphysicspersonal identityphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindShaun Gallagher
The intro to Joel’s paper: Everybody knows that time, the body and the environment are important for cognition. You would not get much thinking done if you were not in a sufficiently oxygen-rich environment or if your body did not operate so as to deliver that oxygen to your organs in just the right quantities…
This from Philosophy of Brains. In this age of histrionics, he was a thoughtful, honest, and thorough thinker. He was often more thorough in discussing the weaknesses of his position than the people who thought they were providing original critiques of his work. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEpistemologyFred Dretskephilosophical psychologyPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind
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