Unaware that he was being trailed, Ignatius pushed his cart against the traffic down St. Charles toward the Quarter. He had stayed up so late the night before working on his lecture for the kickoff rally that he hadn’t been able to move from his yellowed sheets until almost noon, and then it had only…
After the first long swallow — really a slow and noiseless suck, because the thick crushed ice comes against your teeth and the ice must be kept out and the liquor let in — Cap Mac would say: “Very fine, Camille, you make the best julep in the world.” She probably did. Certainly her juleps…
Check out the latest (and last) raft of papers from the soon to be defunct SIEO now hosted under auspices of C+T: Symposium on Luigino Bruni’s The Genesis and Ethos of the Market Symposium on Gary Chartier’s Anarchy and Legal Order Symposium on Deborah Stevenson’s The City Austrian Economicscomplexitycosmos & taxisplanningrationalismsocial epistemology
The very excellent Stephen Turner on tacit knowledge in the latest issue of Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical. EpistemologyGilbert RyleHubert DreyfusJason StanleyJohn McDowellJohn Searleknowing-that knowing-howMichael PolanyinormativismPittsburgh Schoolsocial epistemologyStephen TurnerTacit knowledge
Dear Reader, Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of man’s own making. — Addison As I was wearing the soles of my desert boots down to a mere sliver of crepe rubber on the old flagstone banquettes of the French Quarter in my fevered attempt to wrest a living from…
The very excellent Tom Froese reviews Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin’s book in the Journal of Mind and Behavior. Cognitiondaniel huttodistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionerik myinExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindRadicalizing Enactivismsituated cognitionTom Froese
Another paper by Jack Birner. AIAlan TuringArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecommunication of symbolic descriptionHayekjack birnerKarl Popperphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindphysicalist identity theoryqualiathe sensory orderTheory of mindvirtual machines
One of my favorite contemporary philosophers — Susan Haack — here discussing her latest book with New Books in Philosophy host Robert Talisse, both having been contributors to EPISTEME. Warrant, Causation, and the Atomism of Evidence Law Fallibilism, Objectivity, and the New Cynicism Toward a Social Epistemic Comprehensive Liberalism Social Epistemology and the Politics of Omission…
Recent paper coauthored by Pinker, freely available here. altruismCognitive sciencecollective beliefcollective intentionalitycollective knowledgecoordination problemdistributed knowledgePhilosophy of mindprivate knowledgePsychologysocial cognitionsocial epistemologyspeech actssteven pinker
This from Slipped Disk. Classical musicmusicNorman LebrechtPascal Rogépiano
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