In today’s Guardian there is an article entitled Who do you think I am? with the tag line “It’s all too easy to categorise people but it isn’t inevitable. We can still consider the alternatives.” The writer is quite correct so say that: Identity is a contemporary buzzword and goes onto list instances of its…
I received a message from Rob Wilson one of the most talented and broad-ranging philosopher-scientists around. He was updating me on what he’s been up to of late. He brought two things to my attention. 1. Rob has begun drafting the third instalment to his trilogy which he’s entitled Blood is Thicker than Water, nicht wahr? Terra Socialis: The Individual…
Wonderful to see Douglas Hofstadter’s book I Am a Strange Loop win an LA Times Book Award. What passess as the literati these days needs to be exposed to a mind that is highly cultured, literary and that has unforced conceptual depth. See the Scientific American and the JASSS reviews from last year. Douglas Hofstadter
It was a nice surprise to see that philosopher of social science, Daniel Little, has joined the blogosphere. Motivated by (but not responding directly to) his posting “Who has social identity” I offer these thoughts. Philosophy has only recently begun to turn its attention to the notion of social identity, territory that sociologists, social anthropologists and historians…
A copy of my review of Andy Clark’s Natural-Born Cyborgs is now available through MindPapers.
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…
I have always thought that the topic of personal identity (PI) was the most fascinating topic in metaphysics and perhaps in all of philosophy. Furthermore, this view was enhanced by the consistently high quality of the PI literature attracting the likes of historical thinkers such as Locke, Butler and Hume – and recent thinkers such as Strawson (Peter), Williams,…
Update This issue is scheduled to appear in the Autumn of 2008. All accepted papers will subject to the usual refereeing process. The contributors: Leonard Angel (Douglas College) Lynne Baker (UMass Amherst) Matthew Day (Florida State) Joel Krueger (Copenhagen) Leslie Marsh (Sussex) Teed Rockwell (Sonoma State) Mark Rowlands (Miami)
An appreciation of David Wiggins’ Sameness and Substance (there is some notation later in this piece that needs to be rectified – some characters were lost in the copy and paste) —————————————————- The social constructionist argument takes the generic form of: 1. x need not have existed, or need be at all as it is.…
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