Here is a video piece commemorating a decade since Varela’s passing with some lovely footage of him speaking. Though it’s titled as part 1, I can’t find the subsequent parts and I can’t find anything on the associated website. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionEpistemologyExtended MindFrancisco Varelaneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasocial epistemologyVarela
A discussion on the BBC World Service (H/T to David Livingston Smith). Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityPhilosophy of mind
This just published in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness ChalmersClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended Mind
Here is a recent paper kindly brought to my attention by the author. To achieve the aim of establishing the case for externalist neuroeconomics, I rely on other approaches to externalism in the cognitive sciences which focus on the role of external causal processes establishing mental phenomena in terms of interactions between neuronal states and…
The latest installment from the CSR special issue on EM of a couple of years back (three more papers to come). Andy ClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEpistemologyExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
This article from a special issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Artificial intelligenceAustrian SchoolBodyCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityEmbodied cognitionExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindReview of Philosophy and PsychologySocial Sciences
Here’s a review from the NYT by the ever caustic Colin McGinn (one of my favourite philosophers of mind, however unfashionable some might think he is). H/T to Paul Raymont for the link and for tracking the toing and froing. Here is the equally polemical Raymond Tallis with a joint review of Deacon and Gazzaniga. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive…
Rob’s contribution to the Extended Mind special issue of CSR: This essay begins by addressing the role of the so-called Parity Principle in arguments for extended cognition. It is concluded that the Parity Principle does not, by itself, demarcate cognition and that another mark of the cognitive must be sought. The second section of the…
A recent book in the EM genre. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceExtended MindMoral psychologyMoral responsibilitymoralityphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychologySocial Sciences
Here is Walt Weimer’s brief but valued contribution to Hayek in Mind. Wiemer did so much to bring Hayek’s philosophical psychology to the wider world – and for that we are deeply indebted to him. It’s still really worth checking out Weimer’s work. Occasionally I am asked how I came to the work of Friedrich…
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