Coming soon: The first and only encyclopedia to focus on the economic and financial behaviors of consumers, investors, and organizations, including an exploration of how people make good—and bad—economic decisions. Features • Contains an informative introductory essay that familiarizes students with the various aspects of behavioral economics Provides a list of additional readings for those…
An interesting article by the excellent team of Harris, Barnier, Sutton and Keil CognitionCognitive sciencecomplexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindExternalismPhilosophy of mind
Extended mind and after: socially extended mind and actor-network by Kono, Tetsuya Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science Personal Identity, Functionalism and the Extended Mind by Stanciu, Marius M Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences Minds as social institutions by Castelfranchi, Cristiano Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Extended cognition and the explosion of knowledge by Ludwig,…
From time to time I have posted some excellent optical illusions — this one is particularly good — and no lysergic acid diethylamide involved :) Cognitionoptical illusions
Coming soon aestheticsCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessElliot Samuel Paulphilosophical psychologyphilosophy of creativityPhilosophy of mindScott Barry Kaufman
The very excellent Joel Krueger has a new paper. AffectCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionEmotionsExtended Mindjoel kruegerJoint listeningmusicphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindSelf-regulation
Here’s a just published review in JMB, endorsed by some heavy hitters such as Edwin Hutchins and Kevin Warwick. How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement represents a synthesis of the positions that the author, Lambros Malafouris, has developed over the course of his career, supplemented by the addition of new explanatory examples and unpublished…
An interesting piece since it references literature beyond the canonical extended mind hypothesis. active externalismAndy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid ChalmersExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
This from Scientific American. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessExtended MindMemoryPeter Carruthersphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindWorking memory
Paul Bloom in The Atlantic For the most part, I’m on the side of the neuroscientists and social psychologists—no surprise, given that I’m a psychologist myself. Work in fields such as computational cognitive science, behavioral genetics, and social neuroscience has yielded great insights about human nature. I do worry, though, that many of my colleagues…
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