It’s been a while since I’ve made a posting in political philosophy. With the US election about to take place I thought it an opportune time to bang on about getting one’s terms adequately defined. It’s clear that so-called conservatives neither self-avowed liberals can give an adequate characterization of liberalism. For a sound overview of liberalism see…
I don’t often plug workshops or conferences but here is one that appeals to my interest in social epistemology and computational intelligence. ************************** Workshop on Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology, Leuven, October 30-31 Centre for Logic and Analytical Philosophy The Workshop will be held in Seminar Room 2.41, Van Der Heuvelinstituut, 2nd floor (just to…
Yet another EPISTEME post. Volume 3, Issue 3 “Epistemic Diversity and Dissent” is available for free download.
I notice that the three very brief prefaces to the first issues comprising volume of EPISTEME has now been made available on the EUP website. They give a sense as to what was on Chris’ and my mind at the time. How quickly the time seems to have passed: the Journal is about to enter it’s…
The Philosophers Magazine has an article entitled “The Spotlight Falls on Bright Young Thing,” a profile of EPISTEME Associate Editor Christian List (Issue 42, pp. 7-8). In the next issue of TPM EPISTEME editor Alvin Goldman will be profiled (pp. 88-93). Social epistemology in an analytic vein is finally getting the wider philosophical exposure it deserves.
A very basic overview of embodied cognition in Science News. Why do so many researchers insist on cutifying or the Spielbergerization of robots?
Good news. Andy Clark’s eagerly awaited book Supersizing the Mind is now available. I notice that Clark and Chalmers’ “The Extended Mind” is reprinted here as well. Groovy Dali-esque cover! (Now that I actually have the book in my hands, I see that it is a Dali painting). Something to look forward to will be…
The Michael Oakeshott Association website has been pretty much reconstituted after a technical hiccup. The domain is no longer .org; it is .com. Some wise guy has got the .org URL – THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL Oakeshott website. The MOA .com version is content-rich and has the backing of a whose who of Oakeshott…
Check out a preeminent swarm theorist’s take on the current turmoil on the financial markets. Makes a refreshing change from the sort of analysis you’d see elsewhere.
A New Yorker piece by Adam Gopnik: more a précis than a review but nonetheless quite interesting. Though the target book is touted as an intellectual biography, one doesn’t get that sense, at least from Gopnik. A recent benchmark for an intellectual biography is Bruce Caldwell’s Hayek’s Challenge.
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