EPISTEME 10:2 – Privacy, Secrecy, and Epistemology
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Cosmos & Taxis: Vancouver 2013
Photos from the conference: an unqualified success. Complex adaptive systemcomplexitycosmos & taxisdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeemergent orderSpontaneous order
The Plant Man
The only superstar of the 60s and 70s who never rested on his laurels and continues to explore his musical roots with authenticity and integrity, from blues to rock n’ roll, to country to gospel. He understands where the source is – NOLA, the delta from which all styles emanated and flowed back again. The…
Intuition Pumping: Dennett Interview
3:AM Magazine: Dennett plugging his latest. See also Real People: Personal Identity without Thought Experiments. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnessDaniel DennettIntuition pumpnaturalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindReligionsciencethought experiments
Persons and the Extended-Mind Thesis
An extract from Lynne Rudder Baker’s paper: Cognitive scientists have become increasingly enamored of the idea of extended minds. The extended-mind thesis (EM) is the claim that mentality need not be situated just in the brain or even within the boundaries of the skin. EM is the modal claim that it is possible that the…
Dynamic empathy: A new formulation for the simulation theory of mind reading
The intro to Teed Rockwell’s paper: There are currently two popular theories for explaining “mind reading” i.e. our ability to become aware of what other people are feeling and thinking, and to predict (and/or respond skillfully to) behavior on the basis of that awareness. The first, known as the theory-theory (TT), claims that we have a theory…
Cosmos & Taxis: Launch
Today marks the start of the Cosmos & Taxis conference to launch the associated journal. In attendance will be philosophers, economists, political scientists, sociologists, English profs, complexity theorists, computer scientists, urban geographers and more besides from North America, the Far East, Australasia, and Europe. Please consider submitting a paper, a review or discussion piece to…
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 14
“You realize, of course, that this is all your fault. The progress of my work will be greatly delayed. I suggest that you go to your confessor and make some penance, Mother. Promise him that you will avoid the path of sin and drinking in the future. Tell him what the consequence of your moral…
Jesse Norman’s Burke
Some very positive reviews of Jesse Norman’s Burke. Could Jesse be a Disraeli in the making? The Independent The Telegraph New Statesman The Spectator Benjamin DisraeliConservatismEdmund BurkeJesse NormanLiberalismLibertarianism
Wagner bicentennial: Scruton on the philosophical background
BBC Radio 3: Roger on Wagner and German Idealism aestheticsArtDer Ring des NibelungenfichtefreedomgeistGerman IdealismHegelindividualityKantLudwig FeuerbachMarxMaterialismPhilosophyReligionRichard WagnerRoger ScrutonschopenhauerspiritWagner
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