Here’s an article in The Philosopher’s Magazine by Igor Aleksander, one of 50 big issues selected to commemorate the 50th issue of TPM.
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The Really Big Questions
From the Really Big Questions website (lots of other goodies including a link to Colin McGinn being interviewed by Bill Moyers)
Kristof Koch interview – sound/transcript
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Closer to Truth: Consciousness
I’m pleased to have discovered a superb website that accompanies the PBS series Closer to Truth.
The definitive series on the latest advances in brain, mind, free will, personal identity, alien intelligence, parapsychology, afterlife, and brain-mind critical thinking.
Interviewer Robert Lawrence Kuhn does a super job of guiding the discussion for a lay audience and pretty much picks up where Brian Magee left off some 20 years ago in a series of programes for the BBC (and, I think, Channel 4). The interest here is on the selection of programs devoted to consciousness:
Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
What’s the Essence of Consciousness?
What’s the Meaning of Consciousness?
Is Consciousness Fundamental?
Is Consciousness Irreducible?
Is Consciousness an Ultimate Fact?
What is the Mind-Body Problem?
Why a Mind-Body Problem?
Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
What are Brains?
How are Brains Structured?
What do Brains Do?
How do Brains Function?
How do Human Brains Work?
How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
Can Brain Explain Mind?
How are Brains Conscious?
What Makes Brains Conscious?
How Brain Scientists Think about Consciousness
Among the luminaries interviewed include David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Hubert Dreyfus, Kristof Koch, Colin McGinn, Alva Noë, Roger Penrose, and John Searle and others besides. Here is the link to the video archive.
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Empathy and the Extended Mind
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A Confederacy of Dunces Typescript Sold at Auction
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Herbert Simon
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust
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Review of Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics
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Frege’s puzzle and Frege cases: Defending a quasi-syntactic solution
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 16
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An Introduction to Ontology: From Aristotle to the Universal Core
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Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing
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Minds, Intrinsic Properties, and Madhyamaka Buddhism
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The End
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The social-cognitive dynamics of metaphor performance
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 15
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EPISTEME 10:2 – Privacy, Secrecy, and Epistemology
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Cosmos & Taxis: Vancouver 2013
