Oakeshott, Buddhist?
See Andrew Sullivan’s blog. Elizabeth Corey’s book that Andrew so highly praises features heavily in the Oakeshott symposium for Zygon.
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Neuroscience and Politics
Over the last few years there has been a rash of articles concerning the relationship of neuroscience to politics – Wired – BoingBoing – Crooked Timber. On this topic, here’s a recent posting from the ever-thoughtful Corey Abel. Update: assimilating this paper.
Friedrich A. Hayek: His Life and Work
Here is a lecture on Hayek by disciple Kurt Leube, someone I have had a brief correspondence with. Not deep stuff but I suppose a decent introduction. Interestingly enough he touches upon The Sensory Order though Leube’s enthusiasm for/assessment of this work is way over the top: “TSO is one of the most celebrated books…
Connected
Yet another “popular” book on, as I term it, social connectionism – Connected – see New Scientist review. Shame about the dreadful dust jacket hype on Amazon.com.
Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl and Heidegger
From Brian Magee’s marvelous series (and accompanying book) The Great Philosophers from about ’87 with top-draw commentators on each major thinker. Pt. 1 Pt. 2 Pt. 3 Pt. 4 Pt. 5
Online Oakeshottiana
Some Oakeshottiana can be found online available for download. Oakeshott’s Introduction to Hobbes Letter on Hobbes A fragment from a Spanish version of the Voice of Liberal Learning Hobbes on Civil Association
Happy birthday Google
Brin and Page: We assume page A has pages T1, . . ., Tn which point to it (i.e., are citations). The parameter d is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1. We usually set d to 0.85, . . ., C(A) is defined as the number of links going out of page A. The…
Bayesian Reconstruction of Natural Images from Human Brain Activity
Article in latest issue of Neuron – well worth checking out.
Ryle & Oakeshott on the “Knowing-How/Knowing-That” Distinction
Some two and a half years ago I previewed this paper. For several reasons, not least because of my faffing about and constantly reworking it in light of new reading, not to mention wrestling with some Quine and Frege, it only now has gone to press. Here are the first and last sections. Section II…
Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind
Pete Mandik is trailing his forthcoming book – Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind – to be published by Continuum. From what I’ve read of Pete’s work, he always offers a reliable hard-nosed account of issues in the philosophy of mind and is very up on the literature – he is not stuck in rehashing philosophy…
