Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research — penultimate version here. Cognitioncognitive abilityCognitive neurosciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionEpistemologyExtended cognitionExtended MindExternalismJ. Adam CarterJesper KallestrupKnowledgeMemoryPhilosophy of mindpropositional memory
A new paper by Jack Birner CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceFriedrich Hayekjack burnerphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindthe sensory order
This from The Atlantic BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessCreativityIQKurt Vonnegutmental illnessmriNANCY ANDREASENneuronsneurosciencePhilosophy of mind
This from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceBrainbrain imagingbrain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeethnographyExtended MindExternalismhuman brain projectneurosciencescience and technology studies
This from the NYT. Brainbrain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessgary marcusHuman brainmapping the brainNeurophilosophyneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
Another paper by Shaun this time coauthored with Jan Slaby (check out Jan’s website — lot’s of good stuff here). The concept of a socially extended mind suggests that our cognitive processes are extended not simply by the various tools and technologies we use, but by other minds in our intersubjective interactions, and more systematically by institutions that,…
A new open access article by Sean Gallagher (there currently seems to be some problem with the journal’s website but will hopefully be resolved). In cognitive psychology, studies concerning the face tend to focus on questions about face recognition, theory of mind (ToM) and empathy. Questions about the face, however, also fit into a very…
Special issue of Mind & Society. (H/T to Francesco Di Iorio) From April 8th to 10th 2013, the Herbert Simon Society held its first General Conference in New York. About fifty researchers from different countries and working in different areas attended the event. The conference focused on three topics which were identified as particularly relevant in…
This from MIT Technology Review (H/T to Mark Frazier). He believes that neurobiological research has a distinctly philosophical purpose. There was something that appealed to me because of my interest in literature and music. We wouldn’t have music, art, religion, science, technology, economics, politics, justice, or moral philosophy without the impelling force of feelings. I would…
The superb Rob Rupert contribution to the superb Byron Kaldis edited volume. It may seem natural to think of the mind as a stream of conscious experience occurring squarely behind the eyes, or perhaps as some single, persisting subject of these experiences, hovering in the center of the skull. The past hundred years of scientific thinking…
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