Another video (via David Livingstone Smith) of Pat Churchland plugging her and Paul’s forthcoming book Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality. This talk is part of the The Great Debate conference Can Science Tell Us Right From Wrong?
Here’s a great post in the New York Times (via my chum David Livingstone Smith) on one of the most influential philosophers of recent times within the analytic tradition – the one and only Saul Kripke. My favourite Kripke quote: “It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably…
My chum David Livingstone Smith’s latest book (that I have been trailing) has just been reviewed in the New York Times. The subject matter is as timely as ever and is a cracking read accessible for a general audience and an academic audience.
I don’t normally post conference calls or CFP but this conference has appeal to me. I did attend the Bradley Society conference in about 1997 at Harris Manchester hosted by Bill Mander and had a great time there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: 27th – 29th August, 2013 Location: Harris Manchester College, Oxford Idealism dominated British philosophy during…
Check out this just published paper by Micah Allen and Gary Williams in the open access journal Frontiers in Psychology. Consciousness is typically construed as being explainable purely in terms of either private, raw feels or higher-order, reflective representations. In contrast to this false dichotomy, we propose a new view of consciousness as an interactive,…
I’ve finally received a copy of Aryeh Botwinick’s book that I noted last year. The topic of Oakeshott’s scepticism has occupied Aryeh for a good decade now when he presented a paper at the inaugural conference of the MOA in 2001 entitled “Unifying Skeptical Motifs in Oakeshott’s Thought”. Thanks is due to none other than…
Here is an article from the latest issue of The Atlantic.
Last year I reported the death of my chum Rob Haskell. Here is an obituary from the latest issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior with which he was long associated. A Compassionate Scholar: A Tribute to Dr. Robert Eugene Haskell April 16, 1938 – July 17, 2010 Though no rigorous researcher would downplay…
Here’s a nicely done and amusing sketch/skit inspired by the locus classicus The Extended Mind article.
Check out the latest themed issue of Swarm Intelligence. Here is the freely available introduction. Nice to see the term “cognition” used since I have been using the term in this regard for a few years.
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