Published on Apr 7, 2015 Keynote address recorded March 14, 2015 at the inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science in Amsterdam. Saturday, 14 March 2015 George Lakoff Departments of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA How do we answer the question, “How are thought and language constituted by the brain’s neural circuitry?” … Read more
From Frontiers in Cognitive Science, Thomas Widlok offers a very information-dense original research article on causal cognition. Causal cognition is based on the premise that “the human cognitive system is built to see causation as governing how events unfold” (Sloman and Lagnado, 2014). In this article, Widlok contends that considerable inter-cultural variability remains when the … Read more
In this article from Frontiers in Cognitive Science, philosopher Shaun Gallagher makes a strong and convincing argument against solitary confinement. Since this article appeared, Time Magazine took up the topic in a profile of a man who has been in solitary for 28 years in a Louisiana prison. This is from that Time article: Though … Read more
This editorial from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is part of (and introduction to) a special topic on Interactions between emotions and social context: Basic, clinical and non-human evidence. The whole article is presented below, along with the 22 articles in the topic – all of which have their DOIs so that they can be … Read more
Bruce Hood is the author of The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity (2012). His new book is The Domesticated Brain: A Pelican Introduction, and he was at The RSA in England recently to talk about the new book. Bruce Hood on the Domesticated Brain 7th May 2014 Listen to the audio (full … Read more
A long and interesting interview with Steven Pinker from the Harvard Gazette. Pinker is the author of a lot of really, really thick books, including The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2012), The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human … Read more
Buddhism, Mind, and Cognitive Science Conference, April 25-26, 2014, UC Berkeley This conference is dedicated to the exploration of the methodological underpinnings of the current encounter between Buddhism and cognitive science. Among the presenters and panelists are: Dan Arnold (Philosophy of Religion, University of Chicago) Lawrence Barsalou (Psychology, Emory University) Christian Coseru (Philosophy, College of … Read more
It’s Steven Pinker… he’s got things to say, and you already know that whether you agree with his views or not, he’s always interesting to listen to, and he always manages to stimulate you to think about those interesting things yourself, so why not have a listen to a few things he has to say? … Read more