Food Porn Friday
OK, so it’s just gone on Saturday but I’ve been meaning to bring Scott Gold’s column to your attention. Check out his other entries. foodFood pornnew orleansscott gold
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 22
Mr. I. Abelman, Mongoloid, Esq., We have received via post your absurd comments about our trousers, the comments revealing, as they did, your total lack of contact with reality. Were you more aware, you would know or realize by now that the offending trousers were dispatched to you with our…
Treme cookbook
Lolis Eric Elie’s latest. It’s the cookbook of these characters. foodLolis Eric Elienew orleansTreme
Pat Churchland’s latest
Touching a Nerve. It was a pleasure to attend a series of talks by Pat last year. Below is a filmed record of one of those talks. BrainCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessidentitymoralityNeurophilosophyneurosciencePatricia Churchlandphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindtouching a nerve
Fred Dretske (1932-2013)
This from Philosophy of Brains. In this age of histrionics, he was a thoughtful, honest, and thorough thinker. He was often more thorough in discussing the weaknesses of his position than the people who thought they were providing original critiques of his work. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEpistemologyFred Dretskephilosophical psychologyPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind
Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content
Check out this recently released book by Dan Hutto and Erik Myin. The book will be reviewed by the very excellent Tom Froese for The Journal of Mind & Behavior. Stay tuned. Speaking of enactivism see this special issue of Constructivist Foundations dedicated to Neurophenomenology. Constructivist Foundations must rate as one of the best open access journals I have…
The dialogically extended mind: Language as skilful intersubjective engagement
Here’s a new paper by Nivedita Gangopadhyay et al., Nivedita being a contributor to this special issue as well which I’ll feature over the coming weeks. Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive scienceCollective intelligencedistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionExtended MindlanguageNivedita GangopadhyayPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Surfaces and Essences
Hofstadter’s (and Sander’s) latest. analogyCognitionCognitive scienceDouglas HofstadterGödel Escher BachHofstadterPhilosophy of mindSurfaces and Essences
Turing pardon
The Guardian The Telegraph Alan Turingcode breakingEnigma machine
Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
Keep an eye out for this forthcoming book by the very excellent Smith scholar Jack Weinstein who also happens to be contributing to Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith. Adam SmithEconomicsJack Russell WeinsteinJack WeinsteinLiberalismLibertarianismPhilosophyPhilosophy of EducationpluralismrationalityScottish EnlightenmentTheory of Moral SentimentWealth of Nations
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