I’ve just put together some podcasts and presentations from the last year’s Kazimierz Naturalized Epistemology Workshop 2007 (KNEW’07) on my website. There is also a controversial introduction about the relation of NE to research on artificial cognitive systems – any criticisms welcome!
The excellent program All in the Mind from the ABC Radio National is launching a program’s blog here. On Saturday, there will be an interview with Steven Pinker.
David Chalmers has just announced the launch of MindPapers – an online database of mind-related papers on the Web. It’s much bigger than the bibliography he compiled and offers additional options such as submitting papers to it.
Here’s an interesting patent application from Microsoft. Apparently, they distrust introspective methods as advanced by Simon and Ericsson, and want to use EEG (filtered using the patented artifacts filtering method) to directly assess user interfaces.Seems like the work on neural correlates of consciousness turns out to be commercialized as well. …
Quite recently, more researchers are proposing a way to identify serious blog posts on peer-reviewed research. The idea seems to have originated at Cognitive Daily, and there is already a website for the project called BPR3 (Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting). The plan is to aggregate serious commentaries on published …
A couple of weeks ago I went to this year’s TSC in Budapest. While I didn’t enjoy it as much as I did last time in Copenhagen (though Budapest, even during a heat wave, was quite enjoyable), I liked some of the talks, as in the discussion, you can hear …
At the beginning of July, OUP published a new book by James Ladyman & Don Ross (with contributions from John Collier and David Spurrett) on naturalistic metaphysics, informed largely by current science. They are criticising the armchair way of doing metaphysics, and promoting a science-based account to develop a kind …
