An interesting article by the excellent team of Harris, Barnier, Sutton and Keil CognitionCognitive sciencecomplexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindExternalismPhilosophy of mind
New “review” paper in CSR. Artificial intelligenceComplex adaptive systemcomplexitycomputational intelligencedistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionEmergenceExtended MindExternalismmulti-agent modelingrationalismSelf-organizationsituated cognitionsocial epistemologySpontaneous orderstigmergic epistemologyStigmergySwarm behaviorSwarm intelligence
The very excellent Joel Krueger has a new paper. AffectCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionEmotionsExtended Mindjoel kruegerJoint listeningmusicphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindSelf-regulation
Here’s a just published review in JMB, endorsed by some heavy hitters such as Edwin Hutchins and Kevin Warwick. How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement represents a synthesis of the positions that the author, Lambros Malafouris, has developed over the course of his career, supplemented by the addition of new explanatory examples and unpublished…
The very excellent Tom Froese reviews (a final draft) Hutto and Myin for the Journal of Mind and Behavior. Cognitive sciencedaniel huttoEmbodied cognitionenactivismerik myinExtended MindPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial epistemologyTom Froese
An interesting piece since it references literature beyond the canonical extended mind hypothesis. active externalismAndy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid ChalmersExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
This from Scientific American. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessExtended MindMemoryPeter Carruthersphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindWorking memory
A brief discussion from an anthropological perspective on Robert Logan’s book from a few years back. anthropologycomplexityevolutionary anthropologyExtended MindlanguagePhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of mindRobert K. Logan
This from the New Philosopher. Andy’s colleagues at Edinburgh in the epistemology department proposed the extended knowledge project, where you start thinking of knowledge as this extended process that involves interaction with the environment. I’ve been calling it stigmergic epistemology. active externalismAndy ClarkCognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid ChalmersEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsocial epistemologyStigmergy
Here’s a special issue of Philosophical Psychology that features some top-notch names that includes Ed Hutchins, Rob Wilson and Sven Walter. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial cognition
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