“David Armstrong has suggested (lightly) that the strong sunlight and harsh brown landscape of Australia force reality upon us.” Cited in Devitt’s Realism and Truth, p. x It’s great to see that DMA is still with us, as is “Jack” Smart, both grandees of OZ philosophy. The number of top-notch philosophers that OZ has produced relative…
Well, this article was inevitable – first mentioned here). Francis Heylighen has been talking about this for a few years now as has myself in discussing Hayek, distributed cognition and co-evolved mind and sociality not to mention my ongoing interest in stigmergy which I argue is a species of EM. Abstract: This article explores the notion of…
Here’s a tough review of Paul’s latest outing Plato’s Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals. A final striking fact about Churchland’s book is that it seems almost wholly divorced from empirical psychology. Remarkably, indeed, in a book that advances a theory of the mind that is supposed to be empirically supported,…
This in the NYT. Albert CamusJean-Paul SartreSartreUnited States
Two years on . . . Cognitive sciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
I’ve always described Housman’s intellect as akin to “wrestling with razor blades” as least in his classical scholarship. I chanced upon the The Housman Society which I’m pleased to see has been ticking along for almost 40 years. My first exposure to AEH’s austere intellect was through Gow’s A. E. Housman: A Sketch Together with a List of…
Christine Korsgaard interview. John Rawls
For some reason the late brilliant, though relatively unknown philosopher, Ian McFetridge popped into my consciousness (on reflection, the thought could have been triggered by my thinking about a school chum who had a McFetridge kind of intelligence and wit but sadly was never to even begin to reach his potential). Anyway, Ian conducted my…
This must surely be the most anticipated event in modern non-fiction publishing history. Here is a taster. Black SwanCognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityFooled by RandomnessNassim Nicholas TalebRisksocial epistemologySpontaneous order
Now available. EPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemology
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