This from David Boucher’s The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance: Idealists and realists were not as antagonistic toward each other as is commonly thought. Harold Joachim, for example, submitted the second chapter of The Nature of Truth to his “friend Bertrand Russell” before the book was published. R. G. Collingwood was a respected figure internationally…
I want to give a plug to my chum Andrew Irvine’s play Socrates on Trial. Of perennial interest it is a way of communicating important ideas in an accessible but compelling way. Here is a dedicated page with video footage and reviews. Andrew IrvineAristophanesAthensPlatoSocratesSpartaXenophon
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Ed Feser has another terrific earlier posting on Steely Dan (I recently brought attention to this one). Ed engages with Roger Scruton’s analysis of “popular” music. In older musical traditions, the focus was on the music itself, which had only a contingent relationship to the performer even when the performer was the one who composed it .…
Here is a pre-published version of Francis Heylighen’s paper from JCS Abstract: The present paper criticizes Chalmers’s discussion of the Singularity, viewed as the emergence of a superhuman intelligence via the self-amplifying development of artificial intelligence. The situated and embodied view of cognition rejects the notion that intelligence could arise in a closed ‘brain-in-a-vat’ system, because…
Somehow the passing of Elinor did not come to my attention. Here is IU’s remembrance page. Economist obituary Tell me about some of the key people and publications that have influenced you over the years Herbert Simon and Douglass North have both been very influential on my work: Herbert Simon for his work on rational…
This by my colleague and regular co-author from the UBCMJ | SEPTEMBER 2012 4(1). As you will see, Dave has a rather unusual quality of mind in that he has a philosophical sensibility and so many reference points that typically few with his training would have. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two major phenomena have driven dramatic changes in…
Brain imaging and fluid biomarker analysis in young adults at genetic risk for autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease in the presenilin 1 E280A kindred: a case-control study Interpretation: Young adults at genetic risk for autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease have functional and structural MRI findings and CSF and plasma biomarker findings consistent with Aβ1–42 overproduction. Although the extent to which the…
Good piece by David Rosengarten, leaving aside the inevitable “Big Easy” clichés. I would however take issue with the notion that the best oysters are to be had in NOLA. It’s the Pacific Northwest, specifically Washington State and B.C. that has the best raw oysters. And I say that as someone who knows and deeply…
Volume 9 – Issue 03 – September 2012 HIGHER-ORDER EPISTEMIC ATTITUDES AND INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY Allan Hazlett RELIABILISM: HOLISTIC OR SIMPLE? Jeffrey Dunn GROUP AGENCY AND EPISTEMIC DEPENDENCY Aaron Dewitt CONSTRUCTIVIST AND ECOLOGICAL MODELING OF GROUP RATIONALITY Gerald Gaus EPISTEMOLOGY IN GROUP AGENCY: SIX OBJECTIONS IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Fabrizio Cariani HOW TO BE A…
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