Wow! Quite a mouthful for a title. This paper covers a lot of ground that is of interest to me and cites several people with whom I’ve worked. Instead, what I am going to suggest in the next pages is that collective intelligence phenomena can be explained, in many cases, by means of structures of emergent…
The twelfth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Rouslan Koumakhov Social identifications are one of Herbert Simon’s most recurrent themes. Starting with Administrative Behavior (hereafter, AB) (Simon, 1947/1997), he investigates that theme throughout his scientific work on an impressive number of occasions. Perhaps…
The very excellent Joshua Rust has made this paper published in Journal of Social Ontology freely available. Derek Parfit famously sought to illuminate his account of personal identity by comparing a person to a club. If Parfit could use our intuitions about clubs to help motivate his neo-Lockean account of personal identity over time, which resists…
A close-grained discussion of this vexed issue by the very excellent Rob Rupert. distributed cognitionEmbodied cognitiongroup mindsnatural kindsRob Rupertsocial epistemologysocial ontology
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We’ve been bloody well saying this for the past decade! Here and here and several other places besides. Good though to see The Review of Austrian Economics carry this paper — the late Don Lavoie (as did Hayek before him) was the first of the new generation of Austrians to explicitly grasp the concept of stigmergy, though admittedly,…
The very excellent Martin Beckstein has a new paper out. Friedrich HayekKarl PopperLiberalismmartin becksteinMichael OakeshottrationalismrationalityReasonshilssocial epistemologysocial ontologyTradition
Below is an extract (the first section of Chapter 2) of Ralf Bader’s most excellent and crisp Robert Nozick (pp. 10-14). Famously, Nozick begins his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia with the claim: ‘Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights)’ (p. ix). This claim…
The very excellent Paul Lewis has alerted me to a new paper of his available in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 41, Issue 5, 1 August 2017, pp. 1343–1365. Friedrich HayekHistory of Economic ThoughtPaul Lewisphilosophy of social sciencereductionismsocial ontologytony Lawson
This in the European Journal of Social Psychology. Gee, who’d have thought it! The findings suggest that the ethnically tolerant can be discriminatory, prejudiced and politically intolerant against fellow humans. identity politicsliberalityregressive leftsocial identitysocial ontologySocial psychology
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