Review of the first installment of Hubert Dreyfus’ collected papers. Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive sciencedistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionexistentialismExtended MindExternalismheideggerHermeneuticsHubert DreyfusJohn SearleMaurice Merleau-Pontyphenomenologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Any new book by Andy Clark is, so far as I’m concerned, a notable event. Clark speaks to a general audience without ever being condescending or very jargony and he has a superb turn of phrase. Here is a curtain raiser, a talk on the topic. actionAndy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical…
Despite my (highly qualified) HEC commitments, I love reading people like Ken Aizawa (and Fred Adams) and others such as Rob Rupert who are really HEC’s best fiends. Yes, I said fiends (a nudge and a wink to Herzog’s superb documentary). These three are meticulous and fair critics, meticulous without ever resorting to point-scoring or being trivial.…
Recent paper by Daniel Pearlberg and Timothy Schroeder CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgedonald davidsonEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Provisional publication freely available here. affordancesBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionEmotion-Cognition InteractionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindpsychological constructionismsalience network
From Advances in Austrian Economics PROLOGUE It is probably no more justified to claim that thinking man has created his culture than that culture created his reason (Hayek, 1952/1979, p. 155). For Hayek, intelligence is manifest through a reciprocal coalition with the artifactual (social and physical), a causal integration that can take ontogenetic, phylogenetic, individual,…
Coming soon. aestheticsArtBrainbrain imagingbrain scienceCognitionCognitive sciencedanceEmbodied cognitionmusicneuroaestheticsphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualia
Here is a review of István Aranyosi’s recent book, a contribution to the latest issue of JMB, Vol. 35 No. 3 Summer 2014. CognitionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismIstván Aranyosijournal of mind and behaviorMichael Madaryphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
If the science is willing to allow that cognition can be embodied, embedded, enacted and/or extended then cognition is, or can be, some or all of these things. If it is not willing allow this, then they cannot. If cognition isn’t at least embodied WTF are we taking about? Well put Mark Rowlands! 4eCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied…
Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasituated cognition
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