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October 22, 2011Dave Reeves, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Smells Like Stigmergy

Love the witty title of Dave Reeves’ blog post.

October 21, 2011enlightenment, hegel, Nietzsche, oakeshott, Paul franco

My good chum and co-editor of A Companion to Michael Oakeshott has just had his book on Nietzsche published. Paul is a superb expositor: his range of scholarship astonishes me – Hegel, Oakeshott and Oakeshott, and now Nietzsche.

October 20, 2011Feuerbach, hegel, Marx, Paul Heise, roger scruton, The Ring of the Nibelung, wagner

Roger Scruton on Paul Heise’s Interpretation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle

Having being posted on Phil-L listserv this piece is bound to attract a lot of attention – Paul Heise is quite an exceptional character. It was only a few days ago that I made reference here to Feuerbach. (This is one of the best photos of Roger I’ve come across – it brings to mind my…

October 20, 2011Andy Clark, cognitive science, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, enaction, extended mind, externalism, Michele Merritt, philosophy of mind, queer theory, Shaun Gallagher

Extended Minds Meet Queer Theory

Just when you thought the extended mind literature couldn’t be put to more unusual use, here is a forthcoming talk by Michele Merritt who just happens to have been supervised by none other than Shaun Gallagher and Rebecca Kukla. Also on her committee was Andy Clark. Check out Michel’s recent paper for Philosophical Psychology “The Cure…

October 19, 2011ethics, hayek, liberalism, libertarianism, liberty, moral philosophy, political philosophy, thomas scanlon

Scanlon on Libertarianism and Liberty

Thomas Scanlon in the Boston Review on “How Not to Argue for Limited Government and Lower Taxes“

October 15, 2011efraim podoksik, liberalism, oakeshott, political philosophy, rationalism in politics

Rationalism in Politics in Hebrew: מייקל אוקשוט הרציונליזם בפוליטיקה

Efraim Podoksik has just had his Hebrew translation of Oakeshott’s Rationalism in Politics published. This initiative must have taken some doing since Oakeshott was such a great stylist. So far as I know, the lead essay and/or the whole book has been translated into French, Spanish, Polish and Chinese. Here is the contents/intro/index. מייקל אוקשוט…

October 15, 2011Feuerbach, george eliot, hegel, philosophy of religion, religion, The Essence of Christianity

The Essence of Christianity

Scanning my bookshelf I chanced upon Feuerbach‘s The Essence of Christianity. Though hardly a Marxist nor indeed much of a Hegelian, I do recall that the book had an immense effect upon me (25 years ago) – and of course, translated for the Anglophonic world by none other than George Eliot – that alone impressed me.…