Some thoughts on Larry Shapiro’s excellent The Mind Incarnate . Shapiro identifies two related Cartesian Materialism ghosts. The first is the multiple realizability thesis (MRT); the second is what Shapiro terms the “separability thesis”. MRT is the generic idea being that the mind is only contingently dependent on the brain, the a priori implication being…
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That’s my cat: “Oddsock” in philosophical repose.
I still have a few copies of a booklet I put together (with very high production values) but more importantly containing some beautifully written, affectionate and insightful essays. Copies are available to anyone who is interested, the only provisor being that you cover the cost of the postage. If you are interested, drop me a line. ——————————— Excerpt:…
Ryle Oakeshott I presented this paper at the third international Michael Oakeshott Association conference. ——————————————- Abstract: Politics make a call upon knowledge. Consequently, it is not irrelevant to inquire into the kind of knowledge which is involved . . . (Rationalism in politics, p. 45) Gilbert Ryle’s ‘Knowing How/Knowing That’ distinction gave crisp articulation to a…
I recently took part in a symposium to discuss Loyal Rue’s Religion is not About God. This syposium has been published in the June issue of Zygon. ————————————————- TAKING THE SUPER OUT OF THE SUPERNATURAL (OR A MANIFESTO FOR A LATTER-DAY PANTHEISM) Abstract Metaphysical dualities divorce humankind from its natural environment, dualities that can precipitate environmental…
My review essay of Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon has just been published in The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Summer and Autumn 2006, Vol. 27, Nos. 3 and 4: 357-366. If you’d like to receive a reprint please drop me a line. Update – now available online. ========================================== The thesis that…
Review originally published in Political Studies Review and available on Podoksik’s website.
Review published in Philosophical Psychology
