This is a part of the symposium on socially extended knowledge In Support of Distributed Scientific Knowledge By Orestis Palermos In what follows, I would like to focus on Duncan Pritchard’s novel idea of Socially Extended Knowledge and how it contrasts with the notion of Distributed Knowledge. Here is hopefully …
This is a part of the symposium on socially extended knowledge Commentary on ‘Socially Extended Scientific Knowledge’ by Mirko Farina[1] Pritchard’s Socially Extended Scientific Knowledge is part of a special issue titled: ‘Distributed and Embodied Cognition in Scientific Contexts’. The goal of the special issue is to investigate and critically …
It’s my pleasure to share this symposium, which discusses a recent paper by Duncan Pritchard’s (UCI). The paper is named Socially Extended Scientific Knowledge’, and it’s published in Frontiers in Psychology, SI, ‘Distributed and Embodied Cognition in Scientific Contexts’. The symposium includes commentaries by Mirko Farina (Innopolis University), Orestis Palermos (Cardiff …
Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy. The aim of the series is to examine the use of diverse methods to generate philosophical insight. Each symposium is comprised of two parts. In the target post, a practitioner describes their use of the method under …
Hello everyone! This is my first post here as an associate editor of The Brains Blog. As someone from East Asia, one of my tasks is to reach out people working in and events happening in this area. I will try out several things in this coming year. If there …
We are thrilled to announce some new members of the Brains Blog Editorial Team! We welcome the following new editorial team members. Majid D. Beni (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) Trey Boone (Duke, USA) Tony Cheng (NCCU, Taiwan) Pascale Willemsen (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Zina Ward (Florida State University) will …
(Caveat: for the sake of exposition, at times I articulate past views in slightly anachronistic terms; I do my best to capture the gist of what Alan Turing and others meant in terms that contemporary readers should find perspicuous.) The computational theory of cognition says that cognition is largely explained …
