Another extended mind themed issue from Cognitive Systems Research, the anchor paper being Shaun Gallagher’s The Socially Extended Mind. Here is an extract from the issue’s Editorial introduction: Socializing the extended mind by Michele Merritt , Somogy Varga, and Mog Stapleton Research at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science has been a dynamically evolving and rapidly growing…
The scene which met my eyes was at once compelling and repelling. The original sweatshop has been preserved for posterity at Levy Pants. If only the Smithsonian Institution, that grab-bag of our nation’s refuse, could somehow vacuum-seal the Levy Pants factory and transport it to the capital of the United States of America, each worker…
This famous phrase of Wittgenstein (substitute lion for dog) seems to be salient here. Alva Noë takes on yet another one of those techno-ebullient MRI studies. Alva NoëBrainCognitive neuroscienceEmotionLudwig WittgensteinMagnetic resonance imagingNeurophilosophyPhilosophy of mind
Here is Joanna Boehnert’s recent paper. Check out Jody’s EchoLabs blog. complexitycomplexity studiesDesignecologyEconomic growthEmergenceemergent orderJoanna Boehnert
This must surely rate as the wildest cover for an Oakeshott volume that I’ve yet seen. history of ideasMichael OakeshottMorality and politics in Modern EuropeOakeshottPolitical philosophy
New Orleanians and Southerners generally have a penchant for fried food. They are not the only ones – the Scots and other UK Northerners even deep fry Mars Bars! Here is a nice article on the way frying should be done using all manner of food. Must try the chicken recipe. Deep fryingfoodGerard Marasnew orleans
Another working day is ended, gentle reader. As I told you before, I have succeeded in laying a patina, as it were, over the turbulence and mania of our office. All non-essential activities in the office are slowly being curtailed. At the moment I am busily decorating our throbbing hive of white-collared bees (three). The…
I’m just about finished reading this unrelenting and fine-grained assault on the concept of the invisible hand. This is one of the most remarkable pieces of scholarship I’ve read in many years whatever its flaws. Samuel is terrier-like with a rag doll! No doubt this book is going to upset many ideologues – and so…
Wynton Marsalis and Damien Sneed chat about their “Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration“ Abyssinian A Gospel CelebrationbluesDamien SneedgospelJazzWynton Marsalis
An argument presented by Alvin Plantinga yesterday at UBC. I’ll argue (1) that contemporary evolutionary theory is not incompatible with theistic belief, (2) that the main antitheistic arguments involving evolution together with other premises also fail, and (3) that naturalism, the thought that there is no such thing as the God of theistic religion or…
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