January 2012 – Page 2 – manwithoutqualities

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January 18, 2012derek parfit, on what matters, Philip Kitcher, reasons and persons

Kitcher reviews Parfit

Philip Kitcher reviews Derek Parfit’s massive two-volume tome On What Matters. Derek Parfitethicspersonal identityPhilip KitcherReasons and Persons

January 17, 2012philosophers, photography, steve pyke

Review of Steve Pyke’s Philosophers

On several occasions I’ve featured Steve Pyke’s work – Habermas of two posts back has been Pyked. Here is a review by a philosopher of Steve’s book. There is also brief mention in The New Yorker. The image featured above is of course Jerry Fodor. habermasJerry FodorPhilosophersPhilosophysteve pyke

January 16, 2012andrew sullivan, blogging, David Roberts, Kripke, Matthew Yglesias, oakeshott, philosophy, postmodern, Richard Rorty, social epistemology

Philosophical Training to Professional Blogging

Some of the most talented professional bloggers in the U.S. have backgrounds in philosophy. Is this just a coincidence or is there a causal relationship between philosophical training and the demands of professional blogging? In addition to learning about the philosophical backgrounds and abiding interests of three of the most prominent bloggers in the U.S.,…

January 15, 2012rationalism

Habermas and Oakeshott

Here’s a recent article published in Political Studies. civil associationMichael Oakeshottmoralityrationalism

January 14, 2012epistemic luck, epistemology, Gettier, relying on others, sandy goldberg

Safety, Luck, and Gettierization

Sandy Goldberg gave an excellent talk yesterday. I’m looking forward to seeing some version of this coming out as a fully-fledged paper. Sandy is of course referring to one of the most famous papers in post-War philosophy. Abstract. According to the widely-endorsed safety condition on knowledge, S knows that p only if: not easily would…

January 13, 2012episteme, epistemology, social epistemology

EPISTEME Revamp

To coincide with the move to Cambridge University Press here are some links: Leaflet (pdf): please distribute EPISTEME @ CUP EPISTEME website Cambridge University PressEPISTEMEEpistemologyPhilosophysocial epistemology

January 12, 2012david winters, man without qualities, mark reed, modernism, modernity, musil, philosophy and literature, robert musil

There Will Be No More Great Ideas

Here is a review by David Winters on Mark Reed’s recently published Robert Musil and the NonModern. There’s something about The Man Without Qualities that seems to resist conclusive criticism. Something not so much unfinished as uniquely continuous; infinite. The reason the novel is unlike anything else you’ll ever read is because it goes on reading itself…

January 10, 2012cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, colin allen, Jonathan Weinberg, peter todd, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy

Stigmergy: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science

“Stigmergy” has finally made it into a mainstream philosophy reference work. It is mentioned in the chapter entitled “Reasoning and Rationality” written by Collin Allen, Peter M. Todd, and Jonathan M. Weinberg. Colin, by the way, is co-authoring a paper for a themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research on stigmergy Marge Doyle and I are editing.

January 1, 2012brain, brain science, christof koch, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, daniel stoljar, declan smithies, epistemology, intropection, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, qualia, reductionism

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