Here is a letter from Oakeshott to Watkins that for some reason belatedly (2001) surfaced in Political Theory: both Oakeshott and Watkins, of course, highly distinguished Hobbes interpreters. An aside. Though I never met Watkins, I happen to meet his widow Micky who was one of the “three widows” who were so gracious in their support of…
Another journal plug – this time for a special issue of Swarm Intelligence on Swarm Robotics. Check out the announcement on Simon Garnier’s blog.
The special double issue of Mind and Behavior on Evolutionary Biology and the Central Problems of Cognitive Science is now available. Click for contents Click for abstracts
Of all the obituaries I’ve come across on George Carlin, this one by Marty Beckerman in Reason hits the nail on the socio-philosophical head. Bravo! Postscript: It drives me mad to hear airline staff preface announcements or propositions with “at this time . . .”
One of my favourite writers is Georg Christoph Lichenberg (1742-1799) to whose aphorisms I turn to when I need some light (though not trivial) mental relief. I list some of my favourites below (his ascerbic tone bound to upset several constituencies), culled from his notebooks and translated by the great Reg Hollingdale in Aphorisms published by…
This is a trailer to the soon to be released special double issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior (abstracts will appear shortly on the JMB website)
I’d like to bring your attention to what promises to be a fascinating experiment, the brain-child of Richard Brown who has one of the most entertaining and provocative philosophy blogs around. The on-line consciousness conference pretty much follows the conventional conference format though with some small amendments. The papers are anticipated to be much shorter than usual which…
A rather belated plug for this book. The follow up is currently being edited.
This is sad, I know – it reminds me of when the “Top of the Pops” actually meant something to us 70s kids! Anyway, I was pleased to learn that 11 of the 13 articles from the themed double issue of Cognitive Systems Research (“Perspectives on Social Cognition“) have appeared in the top 25 most downloaded…
The Roger Koppl story that I’ve been plugging for a few months has been picked up by the New York Times.
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