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November 29, 2006
Category: Philosophy
In a comment at the end of the Religion and Science post, Brandon of Siris mentions Peter King as a source for discussions of Anselm's ontological argument. If you're interested, here's a link to his encyclopedia entry on Anselm, and...
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Category: Cognitive Psychology
Originally posted on the old blog on 3/8/2005, and reposted here out of laziness. The Importance of Names What's in a name, for a concept I mean? Cognitive psychologists studying concepts and categorization have, notby and large, treated concept names...
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November 28, 2006
Category: Cognitive Psychology
According to many theories of embodied cognition (particularly type 5), perception is designed to facilitate bodily action, and therefore perception and movement are deeply connected. Much of the evidence for this position comes from research on the relationship between attitudes...
Posted by Chris at 9:09 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2006
Category: Philosophy
One more short post before we return to your regularly scheduled long-winded cog sci stuff. Greece vs. Germany on the soccer field. Enjoy....
Posted by Chris at 9:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs and Blogging
I stumbled upon a paper on using blogs in education, with a focus on small colleges, and I thought it might be of interest to some of you. Here's the blog post with a link to the paper....
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Category: Cognitive Psychology
Those of you interested in embodied cognition, and issues of knowledge representation, should find this paper interesting: Wilson, M. (2002). Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9(4), 625-636. Abstract The emerging viewpoint of embodied cognition holds that...
Posted by Chris at 11:14 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Miscellaneous
I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves,...
Posted by Chris at 9:06 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2006
Category: Miscellaneous
You've probably all heard about the Beyond Belief series, in which scientists give talks about the conflict between science and religion, as well as the science of religion. I've only watched the cognitive scientists (and Dawkins, for reasons I'll mention...
Posted by Chris at 9:12 AM • 60 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2006
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Originally posted on the old blog on 4/3/05. Self-Perpetuating Paradigms: How Scientists Deal With Unexpected Results Previously, I discussed Kevin Dunbar's research on the use of . However, Dunbar is better known in cognitive psychology for his in vivo work...
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November 23, 2006
Category: Social Cognition
One of the more popular theories of emotion during the 60s and 70s was Schachter and Singer's two-factor theory1. The theory is pretty simple. As the name suggests, it states that emotions have two components: arousal and a cognitive component...
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