Here is an advance listing of the forthcoming volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences masterly edited by my chum Byron Kaldis. My contribution: Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society” Austrian Schooldistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEpistemologyFriedrich HayekHayekPhilosophyPhilosophy of scienceRoad to Serfdomsocial epistemologySocial science
My chum, the extraordinarily distinguished and generous neuroscientist Joaquín Fuster, has this excerpt from his essay: In bold characters I mark the concepts advanced by Hayek in his The Sensory Order. In parentheses, under each conclusion, the text passages are noted in which he makes reference to those concepts: 1. The cognitive code is a relational…
This marks the first year we have published on a quarterly cycle and compared with most journals, we are up to date with no backlog: contents and abstracts EVIDENCE AND INTUITION Yuri Cath Many philosophers accept a view – what I will call the intuition picture – according to which intuitions are crucial evidence in…
This by my colleague and regular co-author from the UBCMJ | SEPTEMBER 2012 4(1). As you will see, Dave has a rather unusual quality of mind in that he has a philosophical sensibility and so many reference points that typically few with his training would have. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two major phenomena have driven dramatic changes in…
Volume 9 – Issue 03 – September 2012 HIGHER-ORDER EPISTEMIC ATTITUDES AND INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY Allan Hazlett RELIABILISM: HOLISTIC OR SIMPLE? Jeffrey Dunn GROUP AGENCY AND EPISTEMIC DEPENDENCY Aaron Dewitt CONSTRUCTIVIST AND ECOLOGICAL MODELING OF GROUP RATIONALITY Gerald Gaus EPISTEMOLOGY IN GROUP AGENCY: SIX OBJECTIONS IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Fabrizio Cariani HOW TO BE A…
Just published! Cognitive Systems Research Vol. 21, March Stigmergic dimensions of online creative interaction Jimmy Secretan Stigmergy in human practice: Coordination in construction work Lars Rune Christensen Stigmergic self-organization and the improvisation of Ushahidi Janet Marsden Emergence in stigmergic and complex adaptive systems: A formal discrete event systems perspective Saurabh Mittal Cognitive stigmergy: A study…
Many of you who follow this website will know of my enthusiasm for Herbert Simon. Here is an unusual portrait of Simon painted by the very distinguished Richard Rappaport (wikipedia entry) that I chanced upon and for good measure, I include a link to Simon’s last interview. Artificial intelligenceBehavioral economicsBounded RationalityHerbert SimonRichard Rappaportsocial epistemologySocial SciencesSociology
New issue now available featuring symposium on Christian List and Phillip Pettit. HIGHER-ORDER EPISTEMIC ATTITUDES AND INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY Allan Hazlett RELIABILISM: HOLISTIC OR SIMPLE? Jeffrey Dunn GROUP AGENCY AND EPISTEMIC DEPENDENCY Aaron Dewitt CONSTRUCTIVIST AND ECOLOGICAL MODELING OF GROUP RATIONALITY Gerald Gaus EPISTEMOLOGY IN GROUP AGENCY: SIX OBJECTIONS IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Fabrizio Carrion…
This from The Economist and again here: In the past year, the spirits of Keynes and Hayek have done battle for the minds of China’s policymakers. This month Andrew Batson of GK Dragonomics, a research consultancy in Beijing, argued that Hayek seems to be winning. Austrian Schooldistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionFriedrich Hayekphilosophical psychologysocial epistemologySpontaneous order
Check out the freely available symposium on Pragmatic Encroachment. Also there is a critical notice of Sandy Goldberg’s Relying on Others (sadly not free) that: focuses on the book’s central claim, the extendedness hypothesis, according to which the processes relevant for assessing the reliability of a hearer’s testimonial belief include the cognitive processes involved in…
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