Social Machines: A Philosophical Engineering

November 11, 2016 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by Orestis Palermos in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: Social Machines: A Philosophical Engineering. Abstract. In Weaving the Web (2000), Berners-Lee defines Social Machines as biotechnologically hybrid Web-processes on
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Group Know-How

November 8, 2016 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by S. Orestis Palermos and Deborah Tollefsen in Socially Extended Epistemology, OUP: Group Know-How Abstract. While mainstream epistemology has recently turned its focus on individual know-how (e.g.,
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The Dynamics of Group Cognition

September 26, 2016 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by Orestis Palermos in Minds and Machines: The Dynamics of Group Cognition Abstract: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the postulation of irreducible, distributed cognitive
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The Ethics of Extended Cognition: Is Having Your Computer Compromised a Personal Assault?

September 22, 2016 in Ethical Considerations, Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by Adam Carter and Orestis Palermos in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association: The Ethics of Extended Cognition: Is Having Your Computer Compromised a Personal Assault? Abstract: Philosophy of mind and
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Augmented Skepticism: The Epistemological Design of Augmented Reality

September 22, 2016 in Ethical Considerations, Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by Orestis Palermos to appear in Augmented Reality. Reflections on its Contribution to Knowledge Formation, José María Ariso (ed), 2017, De Gruyter (series: Berlin Studies in Knowledge
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Semantic Inferentialism as (a Form of) Active Externalism

January 17, 2016 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by J. Adam Carter, James Collin and Orestis Palermos in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: ‘Semantic Inferentialism as (a Form of) Active Externalism’ Abstract. Within contemporary philosophy of mind,
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Extended Knowledge Project Impact Event

December 7, 2015 in Ethical Considerations, Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

On January 28, 2016, we are holding an impact event for the recently completed Extended Knowledge Project. The aim of the event is to demonstrate how conceiving of knowledge as extended
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December 7, 2015 in Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

2nd Public Lecture: The Knowledge Ecology

October 17, 2015 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

On 30 October, 2015, 17:00 – 18:30, Prof Michael Wheeler (University of Stirling) will give the project’s second public lecture on ‘The Knowledge Ecology: The Past, Present and Future of Knowing
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Group Knowledge and Epistemic Defeat

October 10, 2015 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by Adam Carter in Ergo: ‘Group Knowledge and Epistemic Defeat’. Abstract. If individual knowledge and justification can be vanquished by epistemic defeaters, then the same should go for
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Socially Extended Knowledge – 2nd International Conference

August 26, 2015 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

Registration for the 2nd International Conference on the topic of Socially Extended Knowledge is now open. Socially Extended Knowledge is the second of two international conferences on the topic of
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The Distribution of Epistemic Agency

August 5, 2015 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by Orestis Palermos and Duncan Pritchard in Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency: De-Centralizing Epistemic Agency, (ed.) P. Reider, Rowman & Littlefield: The Distribution of Epistemic Agency. Abstract. In this
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To Google, or Not to Google, During Exams, by Orestis Palermos and Duncan Pritchard

June 6, 2015 in Ethical Considerations, Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

Mark Dawe, Chief Executive of the OCR exam board, has recently claimed that students should be allowed to use Google during GCSE and A-level exams. Predictably, this intervention met with
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Extended Knowledge-How

June 6, 2015 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by J. Adam Carter & Bolesław Czarnecki in Erkenntnis: ‘Extended Knowledge-How’ Abstract. According to reductive intellectualists about knowledge-how (e.g. Stanley and Williamson 2001; Stanley 2011; Brogaard 2008; 2009) knowledgehow is
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Spreading the Credit: Virtue Reliabilism and Weak Epistemic Anti-Individualism

June 6, 2015 in Extended Mind and Epistemology, New Research, News, Uncategorized by Orestis Palermos

New project output by Orestis Palermos in Erkenntnis: Spreading the Credit: Virtue Reliabilism and Weak Epistemic Anti-Individualism. Abstract. Mainstream epistemologists have recently made a few isolated attempts to demonstrate the particular ways,
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