Intelligence May Not Be Computable
My sometime collaborator, Ted Lewis, has co-authored this piece in American Scientist. AIcomputational intelligenceconsciousnessMachine learningneurosciencePhilosophy of mindTed Lewis
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The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism
Just published. Austrian Economicsclassical liberalismdemocracyEvolutionFilipe Nobre Fariapolitical economyPolitical philosophy
Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran
On this day marking the expulsion. The removal of the Jews from the Arab world has been all but ignored, says Tom Gross. Of course, the regressives are conspicuously silent on this. anti-SemitismislamJudaismLyn Juliusregressive lefttom gross
A Confederacy of Dunces: The Folio Society Edition
a confederacy of duncesBoethiusJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
The Definitive Jonathan Miller Documentary
FT — The Independent — The Times — The Telegraph — The Guardian aestheticscambridge footlightscomedyevolutionary biologyMedicineneuroscienceOliver Sacksoperapathologypeter cookPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindsatire
Etiquette for Infants
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Guide for the Perplexed
See Maimonides’ entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Guide for the Perplexed is freely available from the Liberty Fund. At his trial for impiety in 399 B.C., Socrates was asked how it is that the wisest person in Athens claims to be ignorant of the knowledge he seeks. His answer (Apology 23a-b) is that he…
Rare Robert Nozick interview
To mark the birth of Robert Nozick here is a rare interview I came across: it begins at 3:25. Michael TomsPhilosophyRobert Nozick
Review of Walker Percy’s Symbol and Existence
Micah Mattix in The American Conservative (November/December 2019) meaningMicah Mattixphilosophical literaturePhilosophy of LanguagesemioticsWalker Percy
Reclaiming Liberalism
In press — due December Preface — David F. Hardwick and Leslie Marsh 1. Reclaiming Democratic Classical Liberalism – David Ellerman 2. Democracy, Liberalism, and Discretion: The Political Puzzle of the Administrative State – Stephen Turner 3. Ordoliberalism as the Operationalisation of Liberal Politics – Mikayla Novak 4. Liberalism, Through a Glass Darkly – David…
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