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
This just published in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness ChalmersClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended 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
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…
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…
Ken Aizawa’s contribution to the Extended Mind special issue of CSR: The hypothesis of extended cognition maintains that cognitive processes sometimes span the brain, body, and world. One of the most prominent types of arguments for this hypothesis begins with observations of the role of certain sorts of bodily and environmental influences on cognitive processes,…
Check out Mirko Farina’s review of Perception, Action, and Consciousness: Sensorimotor Dynamics and Two Visual Systems in the latest issue of JMB. Here is the full review. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended MindPerceptionphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
Here is Fred’s contribution to the Extended Mind CSR special issue: What makes a process a cognitive process? I’m not just asking for a list of cognitive processes, but for what makes an item on that list a cognitive process. Why should it be on the list? This is a question that has been ignored…
Here is a survey paper that I was “action editor” for. Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionMog StapletonPhilosophy of mindSocial Sciences
Since I’m about to submit another themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research I thought I’d give a plug to the papers from the last CSR “Extended Mind” issue I edited some two months ago. First up is Dan Weiskopf’s paper: According to the hypothesis of extended cognition (HEC), parts of the extrabodily world can constitute cognitive…
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