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November 6, 2014cosmos & taxis

Cosmos + Taxis 2:1

The latest issue of C+T is now available. Austrian Schoolcomplexitycosmos & taxisdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeemergent orderEpistemologysituated cognitionsocial epistemologySocial SciencesSpontaneous order

October 31, 2014ideology

Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science

Here’s an interesting paper co-authored by Jonathan Haidt. Also, here is a good accompanying article in The New Yorker. The problem though with all the discussion is that the terms “conservative” and “liberal” and their supposed practical politics correlates “Republican” and “Democrat” are meaningless. When push comes to shove, self-ascribed or pejorative usage of these terms,…

October 26, 2014Individualism-Holism

Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate

Here’s a review from NDPR — notwithstanding the reviewer’s criticisms, this may well be a useful update to a longstanding, and often infertile debate. The traditional opposition between social wholes and individuals rings a bit hollow to contemporary ears, not only because the poles of the opposition are only vaguely or ambiguously conceived, nor solely because…

October 8, 2014cosmos & taxis

New C+T Free Symposia

Check out the latest (and last) raft of papers from the soon to be defunct SIEO now hosted under auspices of C+T: Symposium on Luigino Bruni’s The Genesis and Ethos of the Market Symposium on Gary Chartier’s Anarchy and Legal Order Symposium on Deborah Stevenson’s The City Austrian Economicscomplexitycosmos & taxisplanningrationalismsocial epistemology

October 8, 2014knowing how knowing that

Tacit Knowledge Meets Analytic Kantianism

The very excellent Stephen Turner on tacit knowledge in the latest issue of Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical. EpistemologyGilbert RyleHubert DreyfusJason StanleyJohn McDowellJohn Searleknowing-that knowing-howMichael PolanyinormativismPittsburgh Schoolsocial epistemologyStephen TurnerTacit knowledge

October 5, 2014epistemology

Evidence Matters: Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law

One of my favorite contemporary philosophers — Susan Haack — here discussing her latest book with New Books in Philosophy host Robert Talisse, both having been contributors to EPISTEME. Warrant, Causation, and the Atomism of Evidence Law Fallibilism, Objectivity, and the New Cynicism Toward a Social Epistemic Comprehensive Liberalism Social Epistemology and the Politics of Omission…

October 4, 2014steven pinker

The psychology of coordination and common knowledge

Recent paper coauthored by Pinker, freely available here. altruismCognitive sciencecollective beliefcollective intentionalitycollective knowledgecoordination problemdistributed knowledgePhilosophy of mindprivate knowledgePsychologysocial cognitionsocial epistemologyspeech actssteven pinker

September 17, 2014austrian economics

Austrian Theory and Economic Organization: Reaching Beyond Free Market Boundaries

The first volume (of two) edited by Guinevere Liberty Nell. The Austrian economic school famously predicted and explained the problems of calculation in a socialist society. With their concept of spontaneous order, they challenged mainstream economists to look beyond simplified static models and consider the dynamic and evolutionary characteristics of social orders. However, many feel that…