Extended Mind meets Hegel
The Extended Mind Rehabilitates The Metaphysical Hegel Andy ClarkCognitionCognitive scienceDavid ChalmersExtended MindGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelHegelmetaphysicsPhilosophy of mind
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Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence
David Deutsch on AI In my view it is because, as an unknown sage once remarked, “it ain’t what we don’t know that causes trouble, it’s what we know that just ain’t so.” I cannot think of any other significant field of knowledge where the prevailing wisdom, not only in society at large but among…
Michael Oakeshott’s Philosophy of History
In the countdown to October 19th here is the intro to Geoff Thomas’ chapter: Omnis determinatio est negatio, says Spinoza: to specify the nature of anything is also illuminatingly to say what it is not. This remark, whatever its general force, applies exactly to Michael Oakeshott’s philosophy of history. Oakeshott is a polemicist, a prince…
Is Jazz Dead?
Here is a critical review of a book that I haven’t yet read. The review rightly touches on several meta-issues in Jazz but whatever insights Duncan Heining’s review offers and whatever perhaps legitimate criticisms he levels against the target author, Heining’s political sociology itself comes over as a sophomorish off-the-peg conceptual apparatus so characteristic of circles…
Kid Ory
Write-up from NOLA.com: ‘Kid’ Ory bio research took author 15 years; ‘the music is why we care,’ he says. John McCusker’s website Kid Ory was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed…
Noel Malcolm on Hobbes
Noel Malcolm’s monumental 2,355 page edition of Leviathan is rightly attracting attention well beyond philosophical circles. And you can read Malcolm’s chapter on Oakeshott’s Hobbes in the forthcoming A Companion to Michael Oakeshott. But things are looking up for the Monster, thanks to the labours of Noel Malcolm, a polymath at All Souls College, Oxford, and a former journalist…
Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott
Here is the “dean” of Oakeshott exposition, Tim Fuller, and a taster from his essay for the Companion. My intention is to reflect on two themes that run through the whole of Oakeshott’s thought: first, the radical temporality of the human condition and, second, the character of modernity’s response to radical temporality. The first is,…
Oakeshott in South Korea
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Episteme 9.3
New issue now available featuring symposium on Christian List and Phillip Pettit. 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 Carrion…
Steve Jobs on life and death
Update – see the official Apple tribute to Jobs. Notable is Jobs’ valuing the liberal arts. This on the first anniversary of Job’s passing. Death, as I analogize it, is a truck with its headlights on, bearing down upon one standing in the middle of the road. So carpe diem! appledeathIPadIPhonelifeMacintoshpixarstanfordsteve jobs
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