Last week I had the good fortune of participating in a stimulating workshop on protolanguage organized by Dorit Bar-On and Mitch Green at the University of Virginia. Thanks to the organizers for their excellent work. I was asked to comment on a paper by Bruno Galantucci (BG) et al. on a new …
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“Distributed cognition and memory research: How do distributed memory systems work?”Special issue of the Review of Philosophy and PsychologyGuest editors: Kourken Michaelian and John SuttonCall for PapersDeadline for submissions: July 15, 2012According to the extended mind hypothesis in philosophy of cognitive science and the related distributed cognition hypothesis in cognitive anthropology, remembering does …
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Some time ago I was invited to contribute a paper to a forthcoming volume entitled Being in Time: Dynamical Models of Phenomenal Experience. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I was invited because of my paper “What is a Brain State?” Looking back at …
Hi all, it is a while since I have been around, but I have been following along. Recently we’ve had some interesting discussion around responsibility and justice, issues which I have begun to think more about in the last year or so, so I thought now would be a good …
Submissions for a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology on consciousness attribution in moral cognition are due at the end of this month. The list of invited authors includes: Kurt Gray (Maryland) and Chelsea Schein (Maryland), Anthony I. Jack (Case Western Reserve) and Philip Robbins (Missouri), Edouard …
(cross-posted at Hesperus is Bosphorus) Ulric Neisser, an American psychologist and one of the founders of cognitive psychology died last month. Neisser’s life, including his major contributions to the revolution of the study of the human cognition is well documented; see for instance, the NY Times obituary and the Mind …
