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June 29, 2012bernard williams, brian magee, Descartes, moral philosophy, personal identity, philosophy

Bernard Williams

I’ve just had the occasion to read a posthumously published paper by Bernard Williams. One is reminded what a top-notch mind he was, steering a balance between the worst excesses of analytical philosophy’s logicism and continental obscurity, yet with devastating and readable arguments. (OK, I concede that the one exception is his incredibly dense but…

December 10, 2009Alva Noë, artificial intelligence, brain, brain science, brian magee, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, Dennett, Descartes, distributed cognition, Embedded, embodiment, enactivism, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, hubert dreyfus, intentionality, John Searle, Kristof Koch, mirror neurons, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, Robert Lawrence Kuh, roger penrose, the "hard" problem

Closer to Truth: Consciousness

I’m pleased to have discovered a superb website that accompanies the PBS series Closer to Truth. The definitive series on the latest advances in brain, mind, free will, personal identity, alien intelligence, parapsychology, afterlife, and brain-mind critical thinking. Interviewer Robert Lawrence Kuhn does a super job of guiding the discussion for a lay audience and pretty…

October 5, 2009brian magee, Descartes, great philosophers, Heidegger, hubert dreyfus, husserl, intentionality

Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl and Heidegger

From Brian Magee’s marvelous series (and accompanying book) The Great Philosophers from about ’87 with top-draw commentators on each major thinker. Pt. 1 Pt. 2 Pt. 3 Pt. 4 Pt. 5