Forthcoming in Cognitive Systems Research Looking Beyond the Brain: Social Neuroscience meets Narrative Practice Daniel D. Hutto and Michael D. Kirchhoff Beyond sensorimotor segregation: On mirror neurons and social affordance space tracking Maria Brincker Reuse and body-formatted representations in simulation theory Shaun Gallagher Would a Neuroscience of Violence Aid in Understanding Legal Culpability? Valerie Gray Hardcastle Will…
Reviews in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The National Review (interview) of Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head. True freedom requires that “the actor is in touch with the world and other people, in comparison to which the autistic pseudo-autonomy of manufactured experiences is revealed as a pale substitute.” — KIRKUS These points can all be left…
Review of the first installment of Hubert Dreyfus’ collected papers. Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive sciencedistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionexistentialismExtended MindExternalismheideggerHermeneuticsHubert DreyfusJohn SearleMaurice Merleau-Pontyphenomenologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
This from Evan Thompson. As Evan points out the phrase “Wider than the Sky” was first brought to wider attention by Gerald Edelman which I originally read as supporting material for my work on Hayek’s The Sensory Order. Cognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceemily dickinsonEvan ThompsonExtended MindExternalismGerald EdelmanHayekneurosciencePhilosophy of mindPoetrythe sensory order
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…
Several papers relating to extended mind, collective belief and extended knowledge in Philosophical Issues. Not one mention of Hayek . . . and minimal network or complexity theory. Still, a very useful collection and clearly the tide has turned in social epistemology towards notions of distributed knowledge which I’ve been claiming for years is the sin…
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
This from the New York Times. Yet another player on the externalist bandwagon but at least he seems rather more distinctive given his background and interests. Mr. Crawford skips quickly past smartphones and other devices to what he sees as the deeper problem: the Enlightenment notion of the autonomous self. To make sense of it,…
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,…
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