Below is a CFP that may be of interest to Brains readers. PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE: DEBATES ON EMBODIED SOCIAL COGNITION SPECIAL EDITOR: SHANNON SPAULDING Rationale: Embodied Cognition (EC) is a research program that challenges the basic tenets of Cognitivism, the standard position in …
Hi Brainers. I’m writing to again promote an online reading group. The last one, which was on Daniel Hutto’s “Folk Psychological Narratives,” was a fantastic success, and we’d like to continue doing such groups. The new subject is Tad Zawidzki’s manuscript, “Mindshaping: Linchpin of the Human Socio-Cognitive Syndrome,” which is …
Hi Folks, I’m interested in doing a reading group on Daniel Hutto’s book, “Folk Psychological Narratives.” In the book Hutto challenges, and offers an alternative to, mindreading accounts of social cognition. His negative arguments against mindreading accounts (Theory Theory, Simulation Theory, and hybrid accounts) include the charge that they cannot …
Something really weird happened today: A duplication of Shannon’s post on mirror neurons and simulation theory appeared out of the blue under my name (Gualtiero). I apologize for the inconvenience; I had nothing to do with it and hopefully it won’t happen again. (The tech support people didn’t have an …
