The Scientific Publishing Industry
The Chronicle of Higher Education has picked up on a paper by Gloria Origgi published in a themed issue of Social Epistemology.
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Zappa takes on Bloom
Here’s a curiosity (well not really, Zappa was always the most articulate and most sceptical of “beat” composers). Here is Zappa responding to passages from Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. “On Junk Food for the Soul” New Perspective’s Quarterly, 1987 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE NATURE OF MUSIC “Music is the soul’s primitive and primary speech……
Child Brain Development
Neuron is offering free access to this issue until Oct 8.
James Bond and the Barking Dog: Evolution and Extended Cognition
Larry Shapiro has a new paper posted on his website. Prominent defenders of the extended cognition thesis have looked to evolutionary theory for support. Roughly, the idea is that natural selection leads one to expect that cognitive strategies should exploit the environment, and exploitation of the right sort results in a cognitive system that extends beyond the head…
Belief in Naturalism: An Epistemologist’s Philosophy of Mind
Here’s a paper from Susan Haack to be delivered at the Helsinki Metaphysical Club. In philosophy, George Santayana famously observed, “partisanship is treason.” I agree. Like good-faith inquirers in any field, philosophers have an obligation to seek true and illuminating answers to the questions that concern them; and it would obviously be a serious breach…
Mystery and Evidence
Philosopher of mind, Tim Crane, on religion and evidence in The New York Times. For what it’s worth I have repeatedly said that epistemologically speaking, the concept of God does not achieve enough clarity and distinctness to be discussable. When we cite the divine attributes—omniscience, omnipotence, and so on—I do not think we have the least purchase on…
Principia Mathematica
On hearing that Simon’s “thinking machine” computer program Logic Theorist not only validated Russell and Whitehead’s axioms and theorems (but even proved one more elegantly), Russell replied: “I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. I [only] wish Whitehead and I had known of this possibility before we both…
Cognitive ability and the extended cognition thesis
Here’s a just published paper by Duncan Pritchard in Synthese. It’s reassuring to see epistemologists picking up on the extended mind thesis – the other notable epistemologist pursuing this line is Sandy Goldberg. This is the way things are going – I for one am working on a project that will be a major push in…
Kant’s conception of self as subject and its embodiment
Check out my chum, philosopher extraordinaire, and occasional co-author, Chris Onof’s new piece for the Kant Yearbook.
New Studies in Social Epistemology
Here is a collection from OUP with a section devoted to SE (how times have changed) with some top-notch names anchored of course by Alvin Goldman. Special Theme: Social Epistemology Guest Editor: Alvin Goldman 8: Alvin Goldman: Systems-Oriented Social Epistemology 9: Franz Dietrich & Christian List: The Aggregation of Propositional Attitudes: Towards a General Theory…
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