io9's The Essential Posthuman Science Fiction Reading List

The Essential Posthuman Science Fiction Reading List from i09.com

Foundations of Metacognition // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Foundations of Metacognition // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Dear Hammerheads: Big Data?

Calling all Hammerheads!

Dear Hammerheads,

Is anyone aware of any philosophical work, especially in phil mind or phil sci, (but whatever) on Big Data?

(http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data)

What's good? Whatchoogot?

Cheers,

Pete

Dennett Tweets

The actual real (pattern) Daniel Dennett is tweeting. Check out his tweets @danieldennett

Mole reviews Prinz's book on consciousness

The Conscious Brain: How Attention Engenders Experience // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Recent philosophy dissertation on conspiracy theories discusses my own work on CTs

Dentith's "In Defense of Conspiracy Theories": https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/17107/whole.pdf Mandik, P. 2007. Shit Happens. Episteme: The Journal of Social Epistemology.4 (2). http://www.petemandik.com/philosophy/papers/shit.pdf

Exorcising Action Oriented Representations: Ridding Cognitive Science of its Nazg�l | Daniel D. Hutto - Academia.edu

Exorcising Action Oriented Representations: Ridding Cognitive Science of its Nazg�l | Daniel D. Hutto - Academia.edu

Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain | canada.com

Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain | canada.com: 

Chris Eliasmith has spent years contemplating how to build a brain.
He is about to publish a book with instructions, which describes the grey matter’s architecture and how the different components interact.
“Then I thought the only way people are going to believe me is if I demonstrate it,” says the University of Waterloo neuroscientist.
So Eliasmith’s team built Spaun, which was billed Thursday as “the world’s largest simulation of a functioning brain.”

Jamming About the Mind at Qualia Fest - NYTimes.com

Check me out in the New York Times: Jamming About the Mind at Qualia Fest - NYTimes.com

Extraterrestrial Cognition and Sensoria Fiction

Calling all Hammerheads!

Dear Hammerheads,

For a Philosophy & SciFi class I'm piloting spring semester, I'm seeking recommendations of sci fi, preferably short, that depicts either extraterrestrial cognition or extraterrestrial phenomenology.

What's good? Whatchoogot?

Cheers,

Pete