An article from The Atlantic. Allen Buchanan interviewed about his recent book. I think that any appeal to the notion of human nature, on either side of the enhancement debate, is tricky and problematic and has to be handled with care. Yes, in one sense we might say that it’s part of human nature to strive…
Simon died this day in 2001. Check out these two books – Models of a Man (as with most edited books this is uneven, but there is still much to recommend it) and Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, an excellent intellectual biography. Speaking of Simon, I have a paper coming out entitled…
Here is the delightful Marianne Talbot (thrown out of school at 15 for “truancy and disruption”) presenting four podcasts: Part 1: Identity Theory and Why it Won’t Work Part 2: Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the Problems they Face Part 3: If Physicalism won’t work, what is the alternative? Part 4: Are we asking the wrong questions?…
I want to bring your attention to the primary EPISTEME url. No longer will the extentions eu.com/us.com be valid. Here is Cambridge University Press’ EPISTEME page. Cambridge University PressEPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemology
My chum and the new president of the Michael Oakeshott Association, Elizabeth Corey, has just had this article published in First Things. Since this article is by subscription, I will only post a couple of extracts that caught my eye. Elizabeth is an excellent scholar whose chapter entitled “The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott” will be…
Brief Alva Noë article.
Here is a rather scathing review of David Weinberger’s Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. The renaissance of Marshall McLuhan in the era of the Web is disappointing for a number of reasons, not the least of…
Hat-tip to Nola Semczyszyn for this. CognitionCognitive sciencePhilosophy of mind
Here’s a recent KH paper I came across. I made a stab at this topic a few years back.
Here is an article in the WSJ on Deirdre McCloskey. I had the honour and pleasure to meet Deirdre some 18 months ago at a conference on behavioral economics in San Diego. She was absolutely delightful. Everything you wanted to know about Deirdre but were afraid to ask . . . can be found here. Austrian…
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