A dream of mine was finally realized when I made it to the headquarters of Muay Thai in Bangkok. As someone who has a longstanding interest in the martial arts and other combat styles (also via work on embodied and situated cognition), this was a treat indeed. With a ringside seat, I could witness all the…
Islamist Terrorism: Analysis of Offences and Attacks in the UK (1998-2015), a new research project from The Henry Jackson Society, presents the most comprehensive ever overview of the threat from Islamism-inspired terrorism in the United Kingdom. free speechhenry jackson societyislamLiberalismregressive leftterrorism
A recently published paper in the EPJ: ST distributed knowledgesituated cognitionstigmergicstigmergic cognitionstigmergic epistemologyStigmergy
Here is the WP/WE announcement. One of the speakers, Patrick Connelly, is contributing to the forthcoming Walker Percy, Philosopher. Walker PercyWalker Percy Weekend
Clay Routledge in Quillette. Professors in postmodern fields such as gender studies are actively teaching ideas that are more conspiracy theory than scholarly research. If you want to laugh or perhaps cry from seeing what postmodernists are up to in the social sciences, follow the New Real Peer Review @RealPeerReview on Twitter. Many academics focus on…
Having spent the day previewing Deltaphonic’s forthcoming release See Red I’m pleased to report that they are very much on form. Given that their last album Texas, Texas set the bar so high, one had to wonder if they could ever approximate that again (this was the bind that Television found themselves in after Marquee Moon).…
The very excellent Tom Froese has a preprint of his latest available here for free download. cognitivecomputationalismcyberneticsdeathEmbodied cognitive scienceenactivismmortalityPhilosophy of mindTom Froese
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[we] test the counter-intuitive possibility that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity — Rothschild & Keefer, Motivation and Emotion free speechMoral psychologyPsychologyregressive left
I’ve been fascinated by Tudor Parfitt’s work for some thirty years. If ever there were someone whose life as an academic had any genuine appeal to me, it would be his. In his pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s sake he has had a profound effect on the understanding of that paradigm puzzle case of social…
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