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The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics

manwithoutqualities wrote 2 weeks ago: A new book by Ana Cordeiro dos Santos has come to my attention. Aside from the title which caught my … more →

Tags: Ana Cordeiro dos Santos, cognitive closure, Cognitive Modeling, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Systems, Complexity, Computational Intelligence, computer simulations, Distributed cognition

athieism fails to account for its own foundations

Zach wrote 2 months ago: Habermas has argued that “hard naturalism” is a self-instrumentalizing force and ultimat … more →

Tags: Religion, Habermas, athieism, technology, agnostic

positivism and democracy

Zach wrote 2 months ago: I share with Comte a desire for a comprehensive and empirically informed social science.   The recen … more →

Tags: Political Thought, technocraticism, social science, Sociology, Economics, financial crisis, Auguste Comte, positivism, democracy

a sociological account of the financial crisis -- part 1: social "science"

Zach wrote 2 months ago: This first post is the intellectual history behind the crisis. 1. Social Science Paradigms The econo … more →

Tags: Economics, social science, Sociology, financial crisis

Hayek Interview

manwithoutqualities wrote 3 months ago: Here is a transcript of a 15.25-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History … more →

Tags: Austrian economics, Distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Economist, Embedded, Embodiment, emergence, Epistemology

Connected

manwithoutqualities wrote 3 months ago: Yet another “popular” book on, as I term it, social connectionism – Connected … more →

Tags: Cognitive Systems, Connected, james fowler, nicholas christakis, Philosophy of Social Science, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology

The Elusive Oakeshott

manwithoutqualities wrote 4 months ago: Here is a characteristically lucid piece by Ken Minogue on Oakeshott’s supposed conservatism. … more →

Tags: Hayek, kenneth minogue, oakeshott,      Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Social Science, Political Philosophy, Politics, Rationality, Reason

Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology

manwithoutqualities wrote 6 months ago: The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available – the theme is computer simulations – an t … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Stigmergy, social epistemology, Cognitive Modeling, Epistemology, Swarm intelligence, episteme, social cognition, Connectionism

Social Indentity

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Colin McGinn poses a fair question: if Obama is half white why is he considered black? Colin is of c … more →

Tags: personal identity, social cognition, Colin McGinn, sociocognition, Social Constructivism, Social Identity, Sociology, Philosophy of Social Science, essentialism

Distributed knowledge and cognition

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Once again a superb posting by Vitorino Ramos on his blog. Heretofore I’d not been aware of th … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Stigmergy, social epistemology, Consciousness, Swarm intelligence, extended mind, distributed knowledge, Economics, sociocognition

Orders and Borders

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: This past weekend I had the good fortune to be able to attend the Second Conference on Emergent Orde … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Stigmergy, social epistemology, Cognitive Modeling, Epistemology, Swarm intelligence, Hayek, Liberalism, Embodiment

Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: I don’t often plug workshops or conferences but here is one that appeals to my interest in soc … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Stigmergy, social epistemology, Epistemology, Swarm intelligence, social cognition, Connectionism, distributed knowledge, sociocognition

The Social Epistemology of Blogging

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Alvin Goldman, the doyen of analytic social epistemology, has a draft paper posted on his website en … more →

Tags: Stigmergy, social epistemology, Political Philosophy, Cognitive Modeling, Epistemology, Swarm intelligence, extended mind, Hayek, 1

Social Indentity

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: As usual, Dan Little has posted some thoughtful reflections on the multifarious tributaries that fee … more →

Tags: social epistemology, social cognition, sociocognition, Social Constructivism, Social Identity, identity, Philosophy of Social Science

Social Identity

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: In today’s Guardian there is an article entitled Who do you think I am? with the tag line … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, social epistemology, Consciousness, personal identity, philosophy of mind, extended mind, Embodiment, Neurophilosophy, Connectionism

The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Sociality

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: I received a message from Rob Wilson one of the most talented and broad-ranging philosopher-scientis … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, social epistemology, Consciousness, Political Philosophy, personal identity, Epistemology, extended mind, Embodiment, Neurophilosophy

Sociology of ideas

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: This review article/interview plugging a book by Neil Gross that deals with Richard Rorty’s in … more →

Tags: social epistemology, Political Philosophy, Epistemology, 1, social cognition, distributed knowledge, sociocognition, Relativism, Social Constructivism

Visual Complexity

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Thanks to Simon Garnier I discovered this wonderful website dedicated to representations of complexi … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Stigmergy, social epistemology, Cognitive Modeling, Swarm intelligence, extended mind, Hayek, social cognition, Connectionism

Free Content Access to EPISTEME

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: To promote Edinburgh University Press’s new content management system, the  Press is offering … more →

Tags: social epistemology, Editorial Projects, Epistemology, episteme, distributed knowledge, Conspiracy Theories, Economics


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