This article from Canadian Press struck a nerve. Not being au fait with the recent clinical literature on the subject of Alzheimer’s I was interested to read that there is a correlation between the formally educated mind and the onset of dementia. As a child of a dementia sufferer (a mother – cultured and refined but not…
Atheism is big publishing business these days. The rash of recent bestsellers has been dubbed the “New” Atheism – and the loose coalition of those who subsribe to the naturalism promoted across these books – as Brights. I want to make four points: 1. I resent the haughtiness of the term “bright”. The term fails to capture many…
I for one am very pleased that consciousness has become a topic for discussion amongst the literati. I welcome the accessible writing of David Armstrong, Susan Blackmore, Andy Clark, Tim Crane, Dan Dennett, Gerald Edelman and Stephen Pinker to name but a few of the more prominent popular expositors. But I cringe at the dreadful hyperbole…
Dennett on top fighting form.
A 1988 docudrama about “the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter“. The protagonist is Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos. The film features interviews with a youngish Hofstadter and a never young looking Dan Dennett :) (90 minutes).
Here is another finely crafted essay on Oakeshott, the man – written by someone who knew him well and who through his editoral activities, did much to bring Oakeshott to wider attention. This essay should be read along with Michael Oakeshott as a Character and Why Read Oakeshott? ======================================== By Timothy Fuller My first encounter with Michael Oakeshott was…
Einstein on a variety of topics – available here.
Cognitive Science and FactCheck.org, or Why We (Still) Do What We Do The following article is culled from Annenberg Fact Check (if this is the sort of discussion you find interesting, why not check out the journal EPISTEME. Articles such as Alvin Goldman on the epistemic failure of the FBI regarding 9/11 and Roger Koppl on why…
The new issue of EPISTEME is now available. For a list of contents and abstracts please click here.
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