Why is consciousness so mysterious?
A nice chat with Dave Chalmers on this topic.
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Grue
Here’s a message posted to the Liverpool PHILOS listeserv. Having spend quite a bit time of being obsessed by the grue puzzle, I find this message very interesting. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear all, I spent the last six months researching the emerald market, and in the process discovered some interesting facts that bear on the history of ‘grue’, which…
One word examination
The All Souls College one word examination has been scrapped. Kinda disappointing really that such an eccentric intellectual excercise apparently no longer carries favour. Speaking of All Souls, two Fellows I have met include the late Gerry Cohen and Noel Malcolm who is contributing an essay to the volume Paul Franco and I are editing.
Chalmers’ Locke Lectures II and III
Lecture 2 (12th May): The Cosmoscope Argument [Handout] [MP3] [Slides] Lecture 3 (19th May): The Case for A Priori Scrutability [Handout] [MP3] [Slides] See here for lecture 1
Michael Oakeshott’s Skepticism
Here’s a forthcoming book on Oakeshott. Aryeh Botwinick spoke at the inaugural of the MOA on this topic. I never thought Oakeshott had anything to say about personal identity (at least in the Lockean tradition) – so I look forward to see what Botwinick says.
Social Epistemology: Essential Readings
Keep an eye out for this soon to be published anthology of papers. To my knowledge, this is the first such collection of analytically orientated papers on social epistemology. Some of the stellar line-up has previously appeared in EPISTEME.
Synthetic Genome
Here is the Science announcement that is causing quite a stir. This is “a defining moment in the history of biology and biotechnology,” says Mark Bedau, a philosopher at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and editor of the scientific journal Artificial Life. “It represents an important technical milestone in the new field of synthetic genomics,” says yeast biologist Jef Boeke of Johns Hopkins University…
Morality and the Emotional Brain
Shaun Nichols delivers a recent lecture. shaun nichols
What is a philosopher?
Simon Critchley in The New York Times. See Leiter’s critical take on Critchley.
The New Science of the Mind
Here’s a soon to be released book written by Mark Rowlands one of the major extended mind/situated cognition players. Let’s hope the proofing is significantly better than what has been coming out of MIT Press of late. This book will be reviewed by Michael Madary in The Journal of Mind and Behavior.
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