To coincide with the move to Cambridge University Press here are some links:
Leaflet (pdf): please distribute
EPISTEME website
There Will Be No More Great Ideas
Here is a review by David Winters on Mark Reed’s recently published Robert Musil and the NonModern.
There’s something about The Man Without Qualities that seems to resist conclusive criticism. Something not so much unfinished as uniquely continuous; infinite. The reason the novel is unlike anything else you’ll ever read is because it goes on reading itself when you’ve finished reading it. Any kind of critical account would miss that mark, and how could a critic hope to catch up with a book that’s always outrunning its readers? Musil’s novel never will require to be read in order to exist. It will go on regardless, forever essaying itself, perfecting itself.
Stigmergy: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science
“Stigmergy” has finally made it into a mainstream philosophy reference work. It is mentioned in the chapter entitled “Reasoning and Rationality” written by Collin Allen, Peter M. Todd, and Jonathan M. Weinberg.
Colin, by the way, is co-authoring a paper for a themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research on stigmergy Marge Doyle and I are editing.
EPISTEME move to CUP
EPISTEME has now fully transitioned the move to Cambridge University Press. The complete back catalogue from the previous publisher is now available on the EPISTEME/CUP website. The EPISTEME website will be revamped shortly.
New Books in Mind for 2012
Michael Dummett
Telegraph obituary
My favourite Dummett book: Truth and Other Enigmas. My favourite Dummett paper: A Defense of Mctaggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time. Here is Steve Pyke’s superb portrait.
Michael Dummett
Oxford
21 May 1990Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.
When I saw Dummett give a lecture some years back at Birkbeck he could have been mistaken for a Fleet Street hack – he just sounded like one and had the look of one that had spent many an hour frequenting Ye Olde Cheeshire Cheese.
Dreyfus on Embodiment
Here’s a two-parter with Hubert Dreyfus on embodiment – I haven’t listened to the whole talk but I recall first seeing Dreyfus being interviewed by the very excellent popularizer Bryan Magee some 25 years ago.
Music of the Hemispheres
Check out philosopher Dan Lloyd’s film project. On the film site there are several videos of different brain states worth watching. Dan is, of course, no stranger to using other modalities to communicate his thoughts on consciousness – his book Radiant Cool is a classic in the genre.
Inside each of us, at every moment, a symphony plays. It’s the symphony of consciousness, but at the same time it’s the symphony of the brain.
– Dan Lloyd
Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action
Check out this new book edited by two very good philosophers. A stellar line-up indeed – a book that will no doubt become the benchmark to the knowing how literature.
Forensic Science and Criminal Law
My chum and colleague Roger Koppl in action.
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