Julian Sanchez interviews the great man. And in the spring, I’m giving a course jointly with a professor in the Slavic Languages department on Dostoyevsky and his philosophical ideas, and the difference that is made when philosophical ideas are presented in works of fiction rather than in discursive prose. It’s the difference between people who…
The interdisciplinary journal Cosmos + Taxis is issuing a call for papers for its second conference on spontaneous orders, to be held at the Rochester Institute of Technology from May 8 to May 9, 2015. Both days will feature morning and afternoon sessions and informal lunches and dinners. The theme of the conference is “Spontaneous…
This from Parade Ben HarperbluesBrian SetzerDr. JohnEric ClaptonFats DominoJoe PerryJohnny Wintermusicstep back
This summer marks the anniversary of the founding of EPISTEME. Below is a list of the most cited articles — I’m pleased to see that six of the articles that I solicited have a long tail. Group Knowledge and Group Rationality: A Judgment Aggregation Perspective Christian List Episteme / Volume 2 / Issue 01 / June…
Here’s something that a correspondent sent to me. The first image is the book by Dorothea Krook who contributed to possibly the poorest festschrift I’ve ever come across — though I don’t particularly recall her essay, not a criticism to be laid at Krook’s doorstep — even 25 years ago, this festschrift struck me as nth-rate. What is the…
Lou Rawls really is a “Jesus of Cool” — I’m puzzled as to why so many people (Rawls included) have thought that Sinatra was a great singing talent (a sacrilegious view I realize) — Rawls has THE style and voice, a fantastic baritone! To Sinatra’s credit he admitted as much: Thus, talent and dedication, rather than marketing…
This from Slate — now here are a couple of premises for a counter-factual story: If nothing else, Macmillan says, “Phineas’s story is worth remembering because it illustrates how easily a small stock of facts can be transformed into popular and scientific myth.” Indeed, the myth-making continues today. “Several people have approached me with a…
Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research — penultimate version here. Cognitioncognitive abilityCognitive neurosciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionEpistemologyExtended cognitionExtended MindExternalismJ. Adam CarterJesper KallestrupKnowledgeMemoryPhilosophy of mindpropositional memory
Fascinating and amusing discussion. Good to see the likes of Joseph Margolis and Richard Bernstein despite my substantive disagreement with them on the relativism front. Charles Sanders PeirceJohn DeweyJoseph MargolispragmatismRichard BernsteinRichard RortyWilliam James
Here is a recent paper co-authored by a top-notch Kantian scholar (and much more besides), a man with two PhDs (earned, not honorary); one in applied mathematics and the other in philosophy (and no, not philosophy of mathematics or science), a man who has transcended the often trivial aspects of academic analytical philosophy and the…
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