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.
Joel Parthemore’s well considered review of Richard Shusterman’s A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics. The current fashion, in certain circles of cognitive science and philosophy of mind, is to talk up the importance of embodiment and enshrine it in lots of well-considered theories without grasping the irony of pursuing what is, on the surface at…
Here is a slideshow giving an overview of the concept of stigmergy and its applications.
Here is an interesting insight into Putnam’s conciliation of being a Jewish philosopher with his being a philosopher. This brief interview is to plug his latest book Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life.
Durham c. 1985
In the latest issue of the New HumanistAnthony Grayling pulls no punches in attacking Steve Fuller’s latest book. Steve Fuller responds; Grayling comes back. Part 1: Grayling – Origin of the specious Part 2: Fuller – Against the faith Part 3: Grayling – Bolus of nonsense A month ago, I did say that this controversy will run and…
Alvin Goldman, the doyen of analytic social epistemology, has a draft paper posted on his website entitled “The Social Epistemology of Blogging.” What’s gratifying to me is that via Richard Posner (whom Goldman cites), Hayek, who I have argued is the social epistemologist par excellence, makes an appearance. I have recently argued that if Hayek was centrally…
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