Check out this installation supported by the Welcome Trust. People walking along Euston Road will encounter an unusually arresting reflection of themselves in a new light installation, ‘Reflex’, created by rAndom International. The work inhabits the windows of the Wellcome Trust as though it were a living organism. Reacting to viewers, passers-by and traffic on…
Born on this day in 1899
A nice piece (via my chum David Livingstone Smith) entitled “A Philosopher in Love“: The “chief triumph of art and philosophy,” he wrote years before meeting Boufflers, is that it “refines the temper” and “points out to us those dispositions which we should endeavor to attain, by a constant bent of mind and by repeated…
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Here is an interview with Alva in the German language Frankfurter Rundschau. Here is a video interview with Alva setting out in very general terms his research interest. Click here for a Google translation.
The many faces of subjective experience Here’s a man of genuine distinction who singlehandedly reinvigorated philosophy of mind with his The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (thanks to Chris Onof who gave it to me as a gift) not to mention Dave’s hand in the extended mind literature and selfless service to…
Here is an interview with Chomsky conducted by the very excellent Peter Ludlow. Here is another interview conducted by Ali G:
EPISTEME announces an impending move and transformation. With the first issue of 2012 we begin publication with Cambridge University Press and expand our scope from social epistemology specifically to all of epistemology. Our new title will be: EPISTEME, A Journal of Individual and Social Epistemology. Since 2004 EPISTEME has published with Edinburgh University Press. With Cambridge…
Richard Brown (ebullient blogger at Philosophy Sucks!) and Keith Frankish discuss qualia on Philosophy TV. Richard’s dog Frankie chimes in as well.
Ludwig Büchner. According to Wikipedia: The extreme materialism of this work excited so much opposition that he was compelled to give up his post at Tübingen.
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