The new issue of The Monist: “This special issue is motivated by the observation that conservatism plays a marginal role in contemporary philosophy even though it appears to be of considerable importance in moral, social, and political reality. One reason for this neglect is that defenders of conservatism have often refrained from articulating their arguments…
Artificial intelligenceBart SelmanCognitive scienceDavid ChalmersDemis HassabisElon MuskJaan TallinnneuroscienceNick BostromRay Kurzweilsam harrisStuart Russell
I had the honour and pleasure to spend the weekend at an intimate conference this past weekend with the delightful, funny, kind, supportive and of course brilliant Deirdre McCloskey. A true renaissance woman unlike the one-dimensional regressive hacks that populate most academia these days. Deirdre McCloskeyLiberalismregressive left
Notice too that although the choice of processes under study is more or less arbitrary and subject to the observer’s history, goals, tools, and methods, the topological property unraveled isn’t arbitrary. — The Brains Blog Cognitive scienceenactivismEvan ThompsonExtended MindFrancisco Varelamarvin minskymerleau-pontyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Criticism of Islam Angers Western Liberals Regressives. (Strike though added — they are certainly not liberals but authoritarians, with much in common with their bête noire — i.e. Fascists). islamLiberalismregressive left
Coming soon Austrian Economicscosmos & taxisdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeLiberalismSpontaneous order
“Hear this, Tom. I’ll make it short and sweet. We’re not talking about some bush-league medical project—fluoridating water to cure tooth decay. We’re not even talking about curing AIDS. We’re not even talking medicine, Tom. We’re talking about the decay of the social fabric. The American social fabric. I’m not telling you anything you don’t…
This from the New York Times (H/T Shannon Selin) “Our ultimate goal is to have a fundamental understanding of how a complex biological system works,” Dr. Kronauer said. “I use ants as a model to do this.” As he sees it, ants in a colony are like cells in a multicellular organism, or like neurons…
We all want a better world, and we seemingly make progress, with more technology and less prejudice. Yet ideals and utopias are strangely difficult to imagine, let alone achieve. Is it that we just lack imagination or are leaders inherently corrupt? Or is there something impossible in the very idea? authoritarianism Roger ScrutoncomplexityNatalie BennettPhillip Blondregressive…
The pun of the headline was unintended. Anyway, here is a short interview with Susan in Psychology Today — BTW, I highly recommend her Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate. The quote below captures the bind that befalls many humanities academics and is therefore a major driver of their hackery — ostrich-ism: So, in the crudest career terms, yes,…
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