Check out the freely available symposium on Pragmatic Encroachment. Also there is a critical notice of Sandy Goldberg’s Relying on Others (sadly not free) that: focuses on the book’s central claim, the extendedness hypothesis, according to which the processes relevant for assessing the reliability of a hearer’s testimonial belief include the cognitive processes involved in…
This piece from The Economist – cheers! Another recent paper from the journal Consciousness and Cognition by psychologists at the University of Illinois confirms what many have long suspected: a couple of drinks makes workers more creative. Tipsy employees, they say, find it hard to focus on a task, but this makes them more likely to…
As usual from any Marsalis, an articulate, provocative and amusing view. It’s essentially inauthentic when I listen to it. It doesn’t sound like jazz, and I can find few situations with the exception of popular music where the music is so far removed from its roots that it’s so unrecognizable from the original form. So…
Two papers of note from the special issue “The Body Represented/Embodied Representation” of Review of Philosophy and Psychology and one from the current issue: A Moderate Approach to Embodied Cognitive Science – Alvin Goldman Embodying the Mind and Representing the Body – Adrian John Tetteh Alsmith and Frédérique de Vignemont In Defense of Phenomenological Approaches to Social Cognition:…
This from PCS ClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessConsciousness StudiesDavid ChalmersExtended MindFunctional magnetic resonance imagingPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind
Here’s a recent paper. Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive sciencePierre-Paul GrasséSpontaneous orderStigmergyWeb 2.0Web Design and DevelopmentWorld Wide Web
Well, this article was inevitable – first mentioned here). Francis Heylighen has been talking about this for a few years now as has myself in discussing Hayek, distributed cognition and co-evolved mind and sociality not to mention my ongoing interest in stigmergy which I argue is a species of EM. Abstract: This article explores the notion of…
This must surely be the most anticipated event in modern non-fiction publishing history. Here is a taster. Black SwanCognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityFooled by RandomnessNassim Nicholas TalebRisksocial epistemologySpontaneous order
I see that the publisher now has a fully detailed page up for a volume that I’ve been privileged to be a part of. The Foreword is by a very nice chappie going by the name of V.Smith and includes luminaries such as McCloskey, Boettke, Gintis, Steel and others. My abstract: Mindscapes and Landscapes: Hayek and Simon on Cognitive Extension Hayek’s…
This from The Economist. Animal CognitionCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmpathyPhilosophy of mind
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