To Google, or Not to Google, During Exams, by Orestis Palermos and Duncan Pritchard
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 opposition from educational traditionalists, such as Chris McGovern, Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, who responded that this is “nonsense […] a dumbing down
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The Ethics of Extended Cognition: Is having your computer compromised a personal assault?
Adam Carter and Orestis Palermos recently gave a talk about the ethical and legal ramifications of extended cognition at the 2014 IT Futures Conference, University of Edinburgh. Abstract: According to a recent and increasingly popular position in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science — namely, the hypothesis of extended cognition (e.g. Clark & Chalmers
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New Eidyn Research Project
Duncan Pritchard and Jesper Kallestrup were recently awarded by the John Templeton Foundation £100K in total for their project on ‘Virtue Epistemology, Epistemic Dependence and intellectual Humility’. Project Summary Virtue epistemology is the view that cognitive traits like intellectual virtues and cognitive abilities play an important role in an account of knowledge and other epistemic standings. Traditionally, the
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Government recognised cyborg and the first cybernetic hate crime
The links below will take you to the stories of Neil Harbisson, “the first person on the planet to have a passport photo that shows his cyborg nature”, and Steve Mann, the victim of “what may be the world’s first cybernetic hate crime”. The first person in the world to become a government-recognized cyborg What
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A song about the extended mind
The Magnetic Fields – The Machine in Your Hand (Click on the above link to listen to the song. The song is called ‘The Machine in Your Hand’ from ‘Love at the Bottom of the Sea’, by The Magnetic Fields) Lyrics: I want to be the machine in your hand and go wherever you go
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