January 01, 1991

The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts

Cf. Collective Cognition

The Presentation Exchange for Workshops and Classes
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2023
The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas (Drezner)
On Shoggothim
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2023
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (Shirky)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2022
The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (O'Connor and Weatherall)
Don't @ Me
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2021
Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy, and Our Lives (Heath)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2021
The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Wengrow)
An Appeal to the Hive Mind (Ironically Enough)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2020
Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse (Boyer)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2019
The Enigma of Reason (Mercier and Sperber)
On Godzilla and the Nature and Conditions of Cultural Success; or, Shedding the Skin
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2018
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Godfrey-Smith)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2017
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (McWhorter)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2017
How Traditions Live and Die (Morin)
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (Wootton)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2017
Why Democracies Need Science (Collins and Evans)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2017
Are We All Scientific Experts Now? (Collins)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2016
Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (Sawyer)
"Reproducibility and Reliability in Statistical and Data Driven Research" (Week after Next Coming Soon at the Statistics Seminar)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2014
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Eisenstein)
Elsewhere
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2013
Prehistory: Making of the Human Mind (Renfrew)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2012
Demystifying Mentalities (Lloyd)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2012
The Intelligence of Democracy: Decision-Making by Mutual Adjustment (Lindblom)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2012
Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversty of the Human Mind (Lloyd)
Cognitive Democracy
If Peer Review Did Not Exist, We Would Have to Invent Something Very Like It to Serve Highly Similar Ends
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2012
The Priority of Democracy: Political Consequences of Pragmatism (Knight and Johnson)
Networks, Crowds, and More Networks (This Week at the Statistics and Machine Learning Seminars)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2011
The Ethical Project (Kitcher)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2011
Group Problem Solving (Laughlin)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2011
Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism, and Changing Values (Rochon)
SocInfo 2011 (Dept. of Signal Amplification)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2011
The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection (Runciman)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2010
Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Ober)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2010
Where Good Idea Come From (Johnson)
The Neutral Model of Inquiry (or, What Is the Scientific Literature, Chopped Liver?)
Last Words on Saletan
Windows on the Social Life of the Mind
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2009
Physics and Politics: Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection" and "Inheritance" to Political Society (Bagehot)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in your Fur, October 2007
The Public and Its Problems (Dewey)
Social Information Processing: Call for Papers
Delusional Social Networkers
A. R. Luria: The Neuropsychology of Praxis
Armchair Conference-Blogging
"The Invisible Academy: Non-Linear Effects of Linear Learning"
Neuropharmacological Foundations of the Public Sphere
All of Peer Review
"The Paradox of Expertise"
Common Notions: Towards a Lattice-Theoretic Turn in Social Epistemology
Further to Heuristic Diversity
The Structure and Strangeness of Interdisciplinary Research;
Heuristic Diversity, Your Key to Knowledge, Wealth and Power (Dept. of "Yay Team!")
"Go to the slime mold, thou centralizer, and consider her ways"
Popular Delusions of Distributed Multi-Agent Systems
E Pluribus Unum (This Week at the Complex Systems Colloquium)
On Plagiarism
Emile, or, "We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control"
And Just Where Did You Get That Idea?
Assorted Reading
The free development of each is the condition of the war of all against all
"We have created you male and female, and appointed you nations and tribes, that you may come to know one another"

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