February 2008 – manwithoutqualities

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February 23, 2008cognitive science, consciousness, journal of mind and behavior, philosophy of mind, psychology

New Issue of Journal of Mind & Behavior

The new issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior is now available. Contents page Abstracts

February 19, 2008atheism, brights, cognitive science, Colin McGinn, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, epistemology, intelligent design, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, owen flanagan, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, psychology, religion, Rue, science

Naturalizing Religion

I notice that Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and the Centre for Anthropology and Mind have received a big grant for the “study of the cognitive science of religion” from the Templeton Foundation. Who’d have thought that the project of naturalizing religion would become so sexy – for reasons I won’t go…

February 9, 2008conspiracy theories, distributed knowledge, Economics, editorial projects, episteme, epistemology, social epistemology, social ontology

Free Content Access to EPISTEME

To promote Edinburgh University Press’s new content management system, the Press is offering free access to EPISTEME until the end of March. See here.

February 2, 2008british idealism, conservatism, Economics, epistemology, idealism, oakeshott, philosophical jurisprudence, political philosophy

The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence

Oakeshott’s great essay “The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence” is now available in book form. For several years prior to the opening up of the LSE Oakeshott archives, this essay was being passed around in photocopy form, a copy of a copy etc . . . making it ever harder to read. Whatever else is in this collection, this…

February 1, 2008consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Dennett, intelligent design, journal of mind and behavior, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, religion, reviews, science, social cognition, social epistemology

Dennett’s Breaking the Spell

Update: A digital version of this essay is now available from the Journal of Mind and Behavior website – click here or here. Here is a final MS of my review essay on Dennett’s Breaking the Spell published in Journal of Mind and Behavior (Vol. 27 No. 3 & 4 Summer & Autumn 2006).