The Tinkering Mind against Free Will – Commentary on “The Tinkering Mind”

By Ting Huang (See all posts in this series here.) In a prior symposium on the book I posed the following clarifying questions to Vierkant regarding his stance on free will: Does “managerial control” provide basis for moral responsibility? In line with Holton’s conception of choice, what role does consciousness …

Freedom of a Tinker: Comments on Tillmann Vierkant’s The Tinkering Mind

By Paulius Rimkevicius, Chapman University (See all posts in this series here.) Like a tinker, who travels freely from place to place mending metal utensils and sometimes ends up creating quite an extraordinary-looking gadget out of the simple old things that he finds, a philosopher who is well-versed in more …

Tinkering extended minds: Rethinking direct agency.

By Gloria Andrada, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. (See all the posts in this series here.) One of my favorite things about Vierkant’s book is that it provides an original argument for extended cognition, one that begins with the role of intentional action in epistemic  agency. This makes it really interesting …

This Week: Symposium on Tillmann Vierkant’s The Tinkering Mind!

Hi Everyone! Join us this week for a symposium on Till Vierkant’s exciting new book, The Tinkering Mind! Till will kick us off today with a precis, followed by commentaries from Gloria Andrada, Paulius Rimkevicius, and Ting Huang. Then, on Friday, Till will respond. Join us in the discussion board …

Four Short Videos About Neuroscience and Philosophy — Dr. Adina Roskies

We’re excited to release the second of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These and the other six sets of videos are from experts in Cognitive Science, each released on a Friday this semester. Our experts will …

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