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COSMOS + TAXIS Archives

With the cessation of operations for the journal Studies in Emergent Order C+T have agreed to host and make available SIEO’s full back catalogue of papers comprising a Who’s Who of Austrians and their sympathizers. Austrian Schoolcomplexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEconomicsEmbodied cognitionFriedrich HayekPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial epistemologySocial SciencesSpontaneous order

Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith

Now that the ms has been shipped off to the publisher here is the finalized lineup: Foreword — Vernon Smith Adam Smith as a Scottish Philosopher — Gordon Graham Friendship in Commercial Society Revisited: Adam Smith on Commercial Friendship — Spyridon Tegos Adam Smith and French Political Economy: Parallels and Differences — Laurent Dobuzinskis Adam Smith: 18th Century…

COSMOS + TAXIS 1:2

Coming Soon: C+T 1.2 Frederick Turner — “Quality, quantity, granularity, and thresholds of emergence” Stefano Moroni — “Two different theories of two distinct spontaneous phenomena: orders of actions and evolution of institutions in Hayek” Chor-yung Cheung — “Hayek on Nomocracy and Teleocracy: a critical assessment” Lauren K. Hall — “Guiding the invisible hand: spontaneous orders…

Dinner Lab

Now this is my idea of being a social activist and in the long term I’d imagine a whole lot more authentic and thus more effective. dinner labdistributed knowledgefoodnew orleanssocial activismSpontaneous order

The Global Brain

Here’s a paper by David Weinbaum that invokes stigmergy, my first mention of stigmergy and the global brain this year. Cognitive sciencecomplexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended Mindglobal brainNetwork Sciencenetwork theoryPhilosophy of mindSpontaneous orderStigmergy