Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology
The book was published today. Here is the publisher’s webpage and the Amazon page. CognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityFriedrich HayekHayekhebbphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychology
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Review of Philosophy and Psychology
The new journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology has all its content freely available for download until December 31, 2011 A quarterly journal fostering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences of the mind The only journal covering the main philosophical and theoretical trends in the field of cognitive science in a format…
Art and the Limits of Neuroscience
Alva Noë takes the Opinionator slot. What is striking about neuroaesthetics is not so much the fact that it has failed to produce interesting or surprising results about art, but rather the fact that no one — not the scientists, and not the artists and art historians — seem to have minded, or even noticed. What…
Machine Head
Namit Arora in a themed issue of Philosophy Now considers the complexity of consciousness and its implications for artificial intelligence. But despite the big advances in computing, AI has fallen woefully short of its ambition and hype. Instead, we have ‘expert’ systems that process predetermined inputs in specific domains, perform pattern matching and database lookups, and…
MRI of Female Orgasm
Here’s a recent article from The Guardian. The brain in the clip turns from red to solid yellow during climax. brain scienceCognitive scienceKayt Sukelmriorgasmqualia
Chalmers’ TED talk on The Extended Mind
The Extended Mind – I think that this is the first time Dave has expanded the idea to social extension or networks. I recall that FB post he mentions. And Dave is trailing on his website his forthcoming book Constructing the World (OUP). BIG NEWS!! alzheimer’sCognitive scienceconstructing the worldExtended Mind
Hayek, Weimer, Gibson and Rosch
Here is the flyer from the legendary conference convened by Walt Weimer – the other notables included Gibson, who I’m told snubbed Hayek despite so warmly receiving The Sensory Order and Eleanor Rosch later to find fame as co-author of The embodied mind: Cognitive science and human experience. It is amazing that Weimer had (still has I might add!!) such balls…
Doing things with music
Two items of note (at least for me) from the excellent Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: great to see this journal flourishing. I recall a correspondence with an eminent emeritus professor of philosophy at McGill around 2000 who nearly had a coronary when I told him of my interest in phenomenology (he’s still with us…
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