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Hayek’s Self-Organizing Mental Order and Folk-Psychological Theories of the Mind
The intro and conclusion to Chiara’s chapter: Humans are social creatures and they deeply rely on mentalizing, which aims at understanding other people behaviors and formulating expectations about...
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Autoscopic Doubles
This from NRP coinciding with the publication of Oliver Sacks’ latest book Hallucinations. My interest is in autoscopic phenomena in literature – that is, where does the boundary between the...
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Hayek and Behavioral Economics
Still on Hayek. Having just received my copy, I thought I’d give it another plug. My chapter Mindscapes and Landscapes: Hayek and Simon on Cognitive Extension is in this collection. The full line-up as...
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The MIT Encyclopedia Of The Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
There are many pretenders around, but this really is still the best. And I hear that an update is in the works.
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The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity: Our Predictive Brain
My chum Joaquín Fuster and eminent Hayekian has a new book about to hit the shelves. See here for my “Fusteriana.”
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Functionalism and mental boundaries
I’ve decided to dust off some of the papers from a themed issue that I co-edited five years ago since I happen to be very much in “extended mind” mode just now. First up is Larry Shapiro – below is his...
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Hayek
Born on this day in 1899. It’s to analytical (social) epistemology’s (and philosophy of mind’s) impoverishment and shame that Hayek is not that well-known beyond the tiresome caricatures. For all my...
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Consciousness and the social mind
Here is the intro to Phil’s piece. Emotion is a hot topic, getting hotter all the time. The reasons for this enthusiasm are various, but the growth of neuroscientific interest in the area surely ranks...
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Empathy and the Extended Mind
Here is the intro to Joel’s article: Often, I tell a joke and the people around me laugh. (Sometimes this laughter even appears to be sincere.) I usually take this reaction to mean that they find my...
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Economics, cognitive science and social cognition
Here is the intro to Don’s paper: This essay concerns the role of economics in the interdisciplinary study of social cognition. Increasingly many economists believe that economics has such a role. Most...
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Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content
Check out this recently released book by Dan Hutto and Erik Myin. The book will be reviewed by the very excellent Tom Froese for The Journal of Mind & Behavior. Stay tuned. Speaking of enactivism...
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Butterfly in the Typewriter: Critical Notice of Toole Biography
Here’s my review of Cory MacLauchlin’s Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces.
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WOULD You Kill the Fat Man?
When moral dilemmas are posed in a foreign language, people become more coolly utilitarian – The Economist
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The psychology of coordination and common knowledge
Recent paper coauthored by Pinker, freely available here.
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Donald Davidson
I met DD very briefly at the LSE in the early 90s. Putnam had recently filled the Peacock Theatre and I expected that since DD was to be there that he would fill the auditorium easily. Oddly enough,...
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Shakespeare: One of the First and Greatest Psychologists
Pinker in The Atlantic. (H/T to Shannon Selin) Worse still, we humans are the last to notice our own limited nature. In seven words, Shakespeare sums up a good portion of the findings of modern...
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“Storify” Version of Q+A
Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon Artificial intelligenceBounded Rationalitycomplexitycomputational intelligenceDecision makingEconomicsFernand...
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Concept Creep: Psychology’s Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology
Freely available from Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory — by Nick Haslam. bullyingconceptsMoral psychologyNick Haslampolitical...
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Remembering Robert E. Haskell
Decency was his hallmark Today marks six years since my chum Rob Haskell’s death — his obit here. Rob was at the forefront of academic freedom/free speech 20 years ago. Not surprisingly, this kind,...
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