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What is philosophy?

I have been struck by the number of posts that are tagged in WordPress blogs as “philosophy.” Given that philosophy is a central interest of mine I naturally have tag surfed “philosophy” from time to time. It has been somewhat of a disappointment to find, even on the most charitable of interpretations, that much of what is classed as…

Extended Mind II

 Update This issue is scheduled to appear in the Autumn of 2008. All accepted papers will  subject to the usual refereeing process. The contributors:  Leonard Angel (Douglas College) Lynne Baker (UMass Amherst)  Matthew Day (Florida State)  Joel Krueger (Copenhagen) Leslie Marsh (Sussex)  Teed Rockwell (Sonoma State) Mark Rowlands (Miami)

Diversity and Dissent

The new issue of EPISTEME is now available. As you will see, this is a cracking issue with some stellar contributors. For details and abstracts see Project Muse This is the companion issue to Part 1, still available as a freebie here Given the well-known and talented contributors EPISTEME is consistently attracting, this is another…

Brief thoughts on “political correctness”

So-called “political correctness” (PC) is an oxymoron: it posits a metric, the implication being that there is an objective standard being referred to, which of course is being rejected in the first instance by PC’s inherent relativism. Radical social constructionism in its attempt to reject essentialism (race, gender, nationality, class, and so on) through the…