This was supposedly published on the 12th . . . now the 14th. I have two long reviews in this collection, items 48 and 104. a companion to michael oakeshottCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDaniel DennettEvolutionary Psychologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindreligion and science
Frank Jackson on the Mary thought experiment and “Epiphenomenal Qualia” Elsewhere I’ve written: Jackson’s thought experiment bears a striking resemblance to Hayek’s discussion in The Sensory Order, 1.95. Hayek took inspiration from C. D. Broad, the idea that an omnipotent being would still not be able to predict the qualia associated with a substance, for…
This from the New Philosopher. Andy’s colleagues at Edinburgh in the epistemology department proposed the extended knowledge project, where you start thinking of knowledge as this extended process that involves interaction with the environment. I’ve been calling it stigmergic epistemology. active externalismAndy ClarkCognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid ChalmersEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsocial epistemologyStigmergy
Here’s a special issue of Philosophical Psychology that features some top-notch names that includes Ed Hutchins, Rob Wilson and Sven Walter. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial cognition
A report on a paper recently published in Cortex. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencehallucinationmusicneurophenomenologyneuroscienceOliver Sacksphantom music
Here’s a film that I chanced upon (I haven’t seen it yet). Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, or, might they still be around, in the form of modern day masters,…
Evan on neurophenomenology (Evan is UBC’s big gain). brain scienceBuddhismCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEvan ThompsonmrineurophenomenologyPhilosophy of mindqualiaTranscendental Meditation
Dave Chalmers’ Amherst lecture. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid ChalmersdualismMaterialismpanpsychismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualia
A new article in the latest issue of the PNAS entitled “Predicting risky choices from brain activity patterns“ (h/t to Shannon Selin). This study reminds me of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work: Prospect theory concerns the psychophysics of wealth utility: that is, the perceived tradeoffs between potential outcomes and the probability of some outcome occurring. Kahneman…
This from Footnote1 (H/T to Rob Wilson for this). Cognitioncolin AllenconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismIntelligencePhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionStigmergy
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