The Imitation Game: The Philosophical Legacy of Alan Turing
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In Search Of A Science Of Consciousness
Alva Noë discusses Evan Thompson’s Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and consciousness in neuroscience, meditation, and philosophy. Alva NoëbeingBuddhismCognitionCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionEvan ThompsonExtended MindExternalismmeditationneurophenomenologyNeurophilosophyneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionthe self
Distributed Cognition in the Analytic and Continental Traditions
CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismMartin HeideggerMike Wheelerphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
Why things feel the way they do?
J. Kevin O’Regan on qualia. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismHard problem of consciousnessJ. Kevin O’ReganneurophenomenologyphenomenologyPhenomenology of PerceptionPhilosophy of mindquailqualia
Mirrors of the mind
This from ABC in OZ In the early 90s an Italian team of neuroscientists reported a new class of brain cells in the macaque monkey. These mirror neurons responded just as well during the monkey’s own actions as when the monkey watched someone else performing similar actions. The mirror neuron theory took off and has…
Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith
Finally available. Adam SmithAustrian SchoolCognitioncomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeemergent orderEpistemologyethicsimpartial spectatorinvisible handmirror neuronsphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindpolitical economyPolitical philosophyPropriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smithself-interestsituated cognitionsocial epistemologySpontaneous ordersympathy and benevolenceTheory of Moral SentimentsWealth of Nations
Where is my mind?
Ted Honderich discusses his brand of externalism in support of his latest book. actual consciousnessCognitionCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnessExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindted honderich
The phenomenology of depression
Through attempting a comprehensive portrait of existence through time, Heidegger displays a bigger cosmic backdrop against which the shreds of individual despair can be read. My brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated…
Extensive enactivism: why keep it all in?
This open access from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Radical enactive and embodied approaches to cognitive science oppose the received view in the sciences of the mind in denying that cognition fundamentally involves contentful mental representation. This paper argues that the fate of representationalism in cognitive science matters significantly to how best to understand the extent…
Scaffoldings of the affective mind
Yet another piece from the excellent Joel Krueger (as co-author). affective mindCognitionCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended cognitionExtended MindExternalismjoel kruegerphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
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