The latest special issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior is now available: Contents Abstracts A Pluralistic UniverseBradford J. WigginsBrent D. SlifeBrent S. MellingCody D. ChristophersonDavid E. LearyDennis C. WendtEdwin E. GanttGeorge S. HowardWayne VineyWilliam Douglas WoodyWilliam James
I’ve read just about everything by Andy Clark – as I’ve said several times before he is a superb stylist and is philosophy at its most lively. Some years back I read his paper Memento’s Revenge: Objections and Replies to the Extended Mind. I don’t recall having seen the film that Andy references in his paper;…
I want to give a plug to the excellent resource that is the Brain Science Podcast website so passionately managed by Ginger Campbell. There is even an iPhone app now available though I haven’t used it yet.
The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available.
The program for EPISTEME 2010 is firming up nicely. It’s great to see Martin Kusch finally involved with EPISTEME. Discussants at large include David Bloor – how ecumenical is that? In many ways social epistemology comes home – Edinburgh historically being a hotbed of the Strong Programme – and EPISTEME being published by Edinburgh University…
Here’s a TPM interview with Alan Sokal. As Sokal says, perhaps it is inevitable that whatever his technical achievements are, he will be remembered for the so-called “Sokal hoax.” The vitriol that this debate generated I think did philosophy a service to a degree – “Continental” and analytical philosophy – but the slanging match did…
Just about a year ago the centenary of Levi-Strauss’ birth was marked. Today it is reported that he is dead.
Here is the portrait that hangs in Caius College kindly sent to me by Graham A. MacDonald. The problem is that one can’t do much about the reflection giving this rather ghostly rendition – the artist who I tracked down and with whom I spoke did promise to send me a print – he never did.…
A reminder that the bumper issue of EPISTEME is available for free download. See the first paragraph below which discusses the lacuna this issue fills. WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG AND FREDERICK SCHAUER INTRODUCTION Epistemology and the philosophy of law are both thriving, but it is unfortunate that there is so little interaction between the two. Few books…
Here is a New York Review of Books blog report on a workshop conference held at IULM University Milan bringing together a mix of neurobiologists, philosophers and art historians.
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