“David Armstrong has suggested (lightly) that the strong sunlight and harsh brown landscape of Australia force reality upon us.” Cited in Devitt’s Realism and Truth, p. x It’s great to see that DMA is still with us, as is “Jack” Smart, both grandees of OZ philosophy. The number of top-notch philosophers that OZ has produced relative…
Here is the introduction to Ed Feser’s paper from Hayek in Mind. In late 1952, F. A. Hayek sent his friend Karl Popper a copy of his recently published book The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology. In a letter dated December 2, 1952, Popper acknowledged receipt of the book and…
Namit Arora in a themed issue of Philosophy Now considers the complexity of consciousness and its implications for artificial intelligence. But despite the big advances in computing, AI has fallen woefully short of its ambition and hype. Instead, we have ‘expert’ systems that process predetermined inputs in specific domains, perform pattern matching and database lookups, and…
Can it really be twenty years since Dennett’s Consciousness Explained? There were of course many reviews of said book but check out Galen Strawson’s review.
The first of Nicholas Humphrey’s Pufendorf Lectures plugging his new book. Here is a recent review from the NYT.
Here is the flyer from the legendary conference convened by Walt Weimer – the other notables included Gibson, who I’m told snubbed Hayek despite so warmly receiving The Sensory Order and Eleanor Rosch later to find fame as co-author of The embodied mind: Cognitive science and human experience. It is amazing that Weimer had (still has I might add!!) such balls…
Here are some fuzzy but nevertheless recognizable Polaroid photos taken at the now legendary conference convened by Walter Weimer. Weimer was so crucial to bringing Hayek’s The Sensory Order back to life after it had “fallen still-born from the press”. In attendance was also J.J. Gibson who, though was favorably disposed towards TSO in the…
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Here is an article from the latest issue of The Atlantic.
Since I’m very much in “cognitive closure” mode and am immersed in the work of Colin McGinn, I thought I’d post this brief chat. Having read most of McGinn’s philosophy of mind, I couldn’t characterize his work better than Steven Pinker: “McGinn is an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream.”…
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