This is just a banal and rather sad blogger’s observation. I’ve been getting several visitors who have been translating pages from English into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and other languages using Google Translation. I’m curious as to how pages translate – automated translations tend to generate a very awkward phraseology. That I aside, I…
So-called “performance artist” Stelarc whom I first discovered through Andy Clark’s Natural Born Cyborgs (reviewed here) has implanted a “third ear” in his own arm. Apparently the ear will have a microphone implanted to allow others to listen to what his extra ear picks up. It looks like an ear but will it function like…
A somewhat hurried Greenfield-Koch debate which I discovered on Peter Mandik’s excellent blog. I don’t think this standard debating format works well – in many respects it vulgarizes the topic. The full debate (75 minutes – 247MB or available in 15 minutes chunks) can be found on the Mind Science Foundation website.
This must be a first for any politician to publicly invoke Oakeshott. Of course we all know that Thatcher invoked Hayek. I have been assured by correspondents of mine in the know that it it highly unlikely that Howard has read any Oakeshott but that Howard “is a quick absorber of ideas he finds useful. He…
I came across this great poster for the Insectes sociaux 2007 Colloque Section Française UIEIS held this past September. As conference posters go, this is the most dramatic I’ve certainly come across – click thumbnail to view larger version (if you’ve got Explorer 7, the magnification function in the bottom right corner blows it up nicely). What an exciting…
I have yet to insert some Greek terminology denoted as [Greek] and the full citation details. ============================== There is no interpretative consensus among Aristotelian scholars on the methodological principles Aristotle employed in arriving at his list of categories nor indeed how the categories themselves are related to these “classes” of entities. Are they primarily classes (a…
Improbable as this sounds, Oakeshott was the subject of MI5 surveillance. The source of this nugget is the book Philby: The Spy who Betrayed a Generation by Bruce Page, David Leitch and Phillip Knightley (Introduction by John le Carré), Penguin, 1969. Here is the excerpt: It may be that the failure on the part of the…
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A surprisingly aged Kripke lecturing (84 minutes) and on the occasion of his 65th birthday: The First Person (83 minutes) with Q & A (13 minutes)
The title of Putnam’s lecture a nod and a wink to James. (87 minutes)
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