Another extended mind themed issue from Cognitive Systems Research, the anchor paper being Shaun Gallagher’s The Socially Extended Mind. Here is an extract from the issue’s Editorial introduction: Socializing the extended mind by Michele Merritt , Somogy Varga, and Mog Stapleton Research at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science has been a dynamically evolving and rapidly growing…
Check out this discussion featuring Mark Rowlands on the possibility. Of course, Mark aside from being a preeminent extended mind philosopher has the unusual experience of having lived with a wolf for a decade. animalsExtended MindExternalismMark Rowlandsmorality
What a terrific idea for a poster: Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid ChalmersExtended MindExternalismPhilosophy of mind
All those interested in extended mind/externalist/situated type thought should be aware of the field of Behavioral Economics (BE) in general and the work of Vernon Smith in particular. BE is a body of literature that was ploughing this trough some twenty years before the hypothesis of extended cognition took root in cognitive science. It is interesting…
Here is the intro and conclusion to Chris and my paper: To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex communities of…
Another interesting paper by Shaun (OK, I know the image is associated with William’s classic work but I like the image and it’s salient). . CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceExtended MindExternalismmetaphysicspersonal identityphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindShaun Gallagher
The intro to Joel’s paper: Everybody knows that time, the body and the environment are important for cognition. You would not get much thinking done if you were not in a sufficiently oxygen-rich environment or if your body did not operate so as to deliver that oxygen to your organs in just the right quantities…
Check out this recently released book by Dan Hutto and Erik Myin. The book will be reviewed by the very excellent Tom Froese for The Journal of Mind & Behavior. Stay tuned. Speaking of enactivism see this special issue of Constructivist Foundations dedicated to Neurophenomenology. Constructivist Foundations must rate as one of the best open access journals I have…
Here’s a new paper by Nivedita Gangopadhyay et al., Nivedita being a contributor to this special issue as well which I’ll feature over the coming weeks. Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive scienceCollective intelligencedistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionExtended MindlanguageNivedita GangopadhyayPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Footnotes 2 Plato CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionEvan ThompsonExtended Mindnaturalismowen flanaganPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
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