Michael Wheeler’s Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step
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The Philosophical Siamese
That’s my cat: “Oddsock” in philosophical repose.
A Commemoration of the Centenary of Oakeshott’s Birth (2001)
I still have a few copies of a booklet I put together (with very high production values) but more importantly containing some beautifully written, affectionate and insightful essays. Copies are available to anyone who is interested, the only provisor being that you cover the cost of the postage. If you are interested, drop me a line. ——————————— Excerpt:…
Ryle and Oakeshott on the knowing-how/knowing-that distinction
Ryle Oakeshott I presented this paper at the third international Michael Oakeshott Association conference. ——————————————- Abstract: Politics make a call upon knowledge. Consequently, it is not irrelevant to inquire into the kind of knowledge which is involved . . . (Rationalism in politics, p. 45) Gilbert Ryle’s ‘Knowing How/Knowing That’ distinction gave crisp articulation to a…
Taking the Super out of the Supernatural
I recently took part in a symposium to discuss Loyal Rue’s Religion is not About God. This syposium has been published in the June issue of Zygon. ————————————————- TAKING THE SUPER OUT OF THE SUPERNATURAL (OR A MANIFESTO FOR A LATTER-DAY PANTHEISM) Abstract Metaphysical dualities divorce humankind from its natural environment, dualities that can precipitate environmental…
Review Essay: Dennett’s Breaking the Spell
My review essay of Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon has just been published in The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Summer and Autumn 2006, Vol. 27, Nos. 3 and 4: 357-366. If you’d like to receive a reprint please drop me a line. Update – now available online. ========================================== The thesis that…
Short Review of Efraim Podoksik’s In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott
Review originally published in Political Studies Review and available on Podoksik’s website.
Review of Rob Wilson’s Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Cognition
Review published in Philosophical Psychology
Review of Teed Rockwell’s Neither Brain nor Ghost: A Nondualist Alternative to the Mind-Brain Identity Theory
Dewey: the first ghost-buster? (uncorrected galley proof – do not cite) Final version to be found in Trends in Cognitive Science, Volume 10, Issue 6, pp. 242-243 (June 2006)
Review Essay: Andy Clark’s Natural Born Cyborgs
A review essay of Andy Clark’s Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence
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