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,…
H/T to Ken Aizawa for bringing this bumper EM issue to my attention. For a while now I’ve been banging on about the idea that these two literatures, EM and epistemology, have much to say to each other. In this regard I have mentioned in my writings two of the contributors to this issue, Sandy…
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
This essay is well worth a read. H/T to Brian Glenney for bringing it to my attention (I hang my head in shame for not having read it before). Adam SmithCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceDavid HumeDescartesEssayexternal worldhumeLockePhilosophyPhilosophy of mindqualiaSmithSocial SciencesTreatise of Human Nature
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
This is a highly unusual collection worth checking out, co-edited by the very excellent Dagfinn Føllesdal – for the first time here is a work that seriously brings Adam Smith into the orbit of cogsci: Contents Preface Introduction Contributors Can we have objective knowledge of the world? Can we understand what is morally right or wrong?…
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…
New EM paper by Kourken Michaelian published in Consciousness and Cognition. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceConsciousness and CognitionConsciousness StudiesExtended MindMemoryneurosciencePhilosophy of mindUniversity of Granada
Alva Noë’s latest musings. Agency (philosophy)CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExpertExtended MindJames AtlasNervous systemphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindZombie
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