For those of you who haven’t heard Oakeshott here is a rare BBC recording. The transcript can be found here – and the audio is here. Since the topic is philosophy of history, here is the opening paragraph of Geoff Thomas’ essay for Paul and my Companion: Omnis determinatio est negatio, says Spinoza: to specify the…
Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo’s intro from her excellent paper. Friedrich Hayek’s social theory is well known for his articulation of the paradigm of spontaneous orders that challenges the traditional distinction between what is natural and what is artificial. The problem that Hayek saw is that language and other social objects do not fall under either…
Jonah Lehrer interviews Eric Kandel about his recently released book. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessCreativityEgon SchieleEric KandelFreudGustav KlimtJonah LehrerModernismOskar KokoschkaPhilosophy of mindPsychologyqualiaViennaVienna General Hospital
Gilbert Harman on Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Ethics. CognitionEpistemologygilbert harmanPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of mindstatistical learning theory
The new issue of EPISTEME, our first with CUP, is now available. Cambridge University PressCognitive scienceEPISTEMEEpistemologyKnowledgePhilosophy of mindsocial epistemologySocial SciencesStigmergy
In a recent post I reminisced about my appreciation of Jonathan. Here is an official communique from Brooklyn College. Brooklyn CollegeEPISTEMEEpistemologyJonathan AdlerPhilosophyPhilosophy of Educationsocial epistemology
Three luminaries – Rob Rupert, Richard Menary and Jonno Sutton – discuss the topic on Australia’s Radio National The Philosopher’s Zone. P.S. H/T to Ken Aizawa for bringing Rupert’s review of Clark to our attention. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindRichard MenaryRob RupertRobert Rupert
Here’s a plug for the aforementioned title notable, to me at least because my chum, inspiration, and occassional co-author, Christian Onof, has the following entries included: Geometry, Mathematics Transcendental Aesthetic Antinomy Categorical Imperative Method (either representation or a priori-a posteriori also made the final version) There are also two short papers on: Kant and Euler, and…
Here is the follow up to an earlier post on The Royal Institution event: presentations discussion BrainChris FrithCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionHard problem of consciousnessPhilosophy of mindPsychologyqualiaRoyal Institution
One week to go until the 10th Biennial Toward a Science of Consciousness Plenary sessions consciousnessConsciousness StudiesDavid ChalmersDeepak ChopraLeonard MlodinowMenas KafatosNed BlockPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindqualiaStuart HameroffSusan BlackmoreTucson Arizona
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