Rodney Brooks is a Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he also the directs the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Unquestionably, Brooks is the figurehead and principle leader of the embodied robotics movement.
Since his work was first published in 1986, Brooks has brought forth a new era in [...]
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Monday Profile: Rodney Brooks
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Biological Sciences, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Monday Profile, Perception, Robotics, Technology, tagged Artificial Intelligence, biology, cambrian intelligence, cog, CSAIL, elephants don't play chess, embodiment, flesh and machines, frege, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, mobots, perceptual reasoning, Robotics, robots, Rodney Brooks, sensorimotor reasoning, subsumption, subsumption architecture, symbolic processing, turing on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Monday Profile: Donna Haraway
Posted in Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Epistemology, Feminist Thought, Monday Profile, Perception, philosophy, tagged biology, cyberculture, cyborg manifesto, cyborgs, Donna Haraway, embodiment, Epistemology, essentialism, feminism, feminist epistemology, gender, history of consciousness, Perception, philosophy, primatology, race, situated knowledge, subject and object, vision, zoology on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Donna Haraway is currently a professor of the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She began her career studying Zoology and Philosophy, and eventually earned her Ph.D. in Biology from Yale in 1972.
Haraway’s most central contribution to the study of embodiment comes at an intersection between [...]
Monday Profile: Francisco Varela
Posted in Biological Sciences, Cognitive Science, Eastern Thought, Medicine, Meditation/Yoga, Monday Profile, Neuroscience, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, philosophy, tagged autopoiesis, biology, cognitve science, edmund husserl, embodied mind, embodiment, Francisco Varela, Integral Institute, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, neurophenomenology, Neuroscience, Phenomenology, philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Tibetan Buddhism, varela on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Francisco Varela (1946-2001) was a Chilean biologist, neuroscientist and philosopher, and is on the shortlist of visionary pioneers who conceived the interdisciplinary thesis of the embodied mind.
He began his academic career studying medicine and biology but also had a wide philosophical orientation, being primarily influenced by the work of phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Maurice [...]
