The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition
Forthcoming Cognitive sciencecultural evolutionEmotionphilosophical psychologyRami GabrielStephen T. Asma
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The Psychology of Chess
Fernand Gobet has a new book out that, as a (very rusty) chess player, has piqued my interest. As a cognitive scientist and a highly skilled player himself, there are few (if any) better placed than Fernand to write on this topic. Visitors to this site might recall Fernand’s excellent essay on Herb Simon. Here is…
From Wide Cognition to Mechanisms: A Silent Revolution
“Going mechanistic”: fun paper just published in Frontiers in Psychology. Culture seems to function as a classic example of “epistemic action” active externalismCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionenactivismExtended cognitionsituated cognition
“Marginal Men”: Weimer on Hayek
From Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology (Thank you Walter!) Occasionally I am asked how I came to the work of Friedrich Hayek and why I promoted it (to a mainly psychological audience) through conferences and writings in the 1970’s and 1980’s during the period when I was able to indulge my hobby of studying interesting…
Trippy Herbert Simon Lecture Poster
H/T collagedropoutsf Artificial intelligenceCognitive sciencecomputational intelligenceHerbert SimonPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of mindPsychedelic
The Self in the Age of Cognitive Science
The most excellent Rob Rupert has made his latest paper freely available. Abstract Philosophers of mind commonly draw a distinction between the personal level – the distinctive realm of conscious experience and reasoned deliberation – and the subpersonal level, the domain of mindless mechanism and brute cause and effect. Moreover, they tend to view cognitive…
Why Is Virtual Reality Interesting for Philosophers?
Thomas Metzinger in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. AIArtificial intelligenceCognitive scienceEpistemologyethicsmetaphysicspersonal identityphenomenologyPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of religionPolitical philosophyvirtual reality
