Oakeshott, Buddhist?
See Andrew Sullivan’s blog. Elizabeth Corey’s book that Andrew so highly praises features heavily in the Oakeshott symposium for Zygon.
See Andrew Sullivan’s blog. Elizabeth Corey’s book that Andrew so highly praises features heavily in the Oakeshott symposium for Zygon.
THE EXTENDED MIND AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT Zygon symposium (Volume 44 Issue 3 September 2009) is now available online. The lineup as follows: MINDSCAPES AND LANDSCAPES: EXPLORING THE EXTENDED MIND (p 625-627) Leslie Marsh THE EXTENDED MIND (p 628-641) Mark Rowlands PERSONS AND THE EXTENDED-MIND THESIS (p 642-658) Lynne Rudder Baker MINDS, INTRINSIC PROPERTIES, AND MADHYAMAKA…
This past weekend I attended the Timothy Sprigge Memorial Conference (see link to obituary by Jane O’Grady who was in attendence). I met Sprigge in 1997 at the Bradley conference at Harris-Manchester College Oxford, a time when I was very interested in the idealists. Funny how philosophical changes come and go – Sprigge, ever the…
Here is an uncorrected proof of my introduction to the mini symposium on The Extended Mind to appear in Zygon. Vol. 44, no. 3 (September 2009).
The Oakeshott symposium on science, religion, and politics in the journal Zygon is now online. In this issue there is also a symposium on Owen Flanagan’s latest book The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. I was scheduled to participate in this symposium, a symposium that I’d originally suggested, but my computer went…
In anticipation of the symposium on the Extended Mind that I’m editing for Zygon, I can now make available the abstracts. Mark Rowlands THE EXTENDED MIND The extended mind is the thesis that some mental – typically cognitive – processes are partly composed of operations performed by cognizing organisms on the world around them. The…
Here is my introduction to the Zygon symposium on Oakeshott to appear in the March 2009 issue. This is an uncorrected proof – do not cite.
Here is an interesting insight into Putnam’s conciliation of being a Jewish philosopher with his being a philosopher. This brief interview is to plug his latest book Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life.
In the latest issue of the New HumanistAnthony Grayling pulls no punches in attacking Steve Fuller’s latest book. Steve Fuller responds; Grayling comes back. Part 1: Grayling – Origin of the specious Part 2: Fuller – Against the faith Part 3: Grayling – Bolus of nonsense A month ago, I did say that this controversy will run and…
One of my favourite writers is Georg Christoph Lichenberg (1742-1799) to whose aphorisms I turn to when I need some light (though not trivial) mental relief. I list some of my favourites below (his ascerbic tone bound to upset several constituencies), culled from his notebooks and translated by the great Reg Hollingdale in Aphorisms published by…