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Victim of the Brain
A 1988 docudrama about “the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter“. The protagonist is Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos. The film features interviews with a youngish Hofstadter and a never young looking Dan Dennett :) (90 minutes).
Encounters with Michael Oakeshott
Here is another finely crafted essay on Oakeshott, the man – written by someone who knew him well and who through his editoral activities, did much to bring Oakeshott to wider attention. This essay should be read along with Michael Oakeshott as a Character and Why Read Oakeshott? ======================================== By Timothy Fuller My first encounter with Michael Oakeshott was…
Einstein audio
Einstein on a variety of topics – available here.
Cognitive Science meets Social Epistemology
Cognitive Science and FactCheck.org, or Why We (Still) Do What We Do The following article is culled from Annenberg Fact Check (if this is the sort of discussion you find interesting, why not check out the journal EPISTEME. Articles such as Alvin Goldman on the epistemic failure of the FBI regarding 9/11 and Roger Koppl on why…
Epistemic Relativism
The new issue of EPISTEME is now available. For a list of contents and abstracts please click here.
Modules, Networks, and the Brain’s Need to Heed
This is an article I culled from Scientific American.com. What struck me about this article is that it features the work of Joaquín Fuster, one of the very few first-order neuroscientists who appreciate Hayek’s proto-connectionism (the other being Edelman). Fuster really deserves to be better known within the philosophy of mind community – his writing is highly accessible. I thoroughly…
Pinker and Goldstein on Atheism
In the wake of Dennett and Dawkins, two more prominent names weigh in on atheism. This article from Salon.com I reproduce here because of annoying pop-up adverts. Also see David Berreby’s piece on Dawkins (Berreby happens to drop in a reference to Oakeshott – this Oakeshott fellow seems to be getting fashionable amongst bloggers). Readers might be interested in…
Perspectives on social cognition
The September 7th issue of Science is a special issue devoted to social cognition: the table of contents found here. I reproduce the introduction “Living in Societies” by Caroline Ash, Gilbert Chin, Elizabeth Pennisi and Andrew Sugden. The appearance of this issue has prompted me to post the introduction to the special issue of social cognition…
The Matrix and Philosophy
For many the term “film” let alone “Hollywood film” can be uttered in the same breath as philosophy (the only instances I can think of right now are Mishima, Death in Venice and Performance – three films conspicuously missing from a list of ostensibly philosophical films: I have mentioned elsewhere that what was passes for philosophy is contentious). Anyway, there is a film…
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