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.
This would make a lovely if somewhat expensive item for the Hume fan (thanks Gene via Mario for the link). See full details here.
Test your memory skills with National Geographic.
Here is a MS of my paper that was published here.
Here is a transcript of a 15.25-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program and the Pacific Academy of Advanced Studies. I haven’t read the piece so I can’t vouch for its quality (I don’t recognise the interviewers). Anyway, one would hope that there will be some interest within the 1,046…
I want to bring your attention to this superb paper by Jacky Mallett (one of the sharpest minds around) published in Studies in Emergent Order, Spring 2009, Vol. 2.
