Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology
Just published — coauthored by the current dean of ontology studies, Barry Smith. Really worth checking out Barry’s youtube channel. Barry Smithbig databiomedicinemetaphyicsOntologyscientific knowledge
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Do Animals Have Free Will?
This in The Philosophers’ Magazine animalsCognitionethicsFree willmetaphyics
Interview with Bernard Williams
This from Cogito, Volume 8, Issue 1, 1994, pp. 3-19 Cogito: Perhaps you could start by telling us something about your own philosophical background. How did you come to study philosophy, and what have been the main influences that have helped to shape your thought? Williams: I started learning philosophy formally at Oxford, where I went, in the…
Nation’s Historians Warn The Past Is Expanding At Alarming Rate
. . . a report published Thursday by the American Historical Association has found that the past is currently expanding at an alarming rate. American Historical AssociationHegelHistorymetaphyicsphilosophical humorPhilosophy of historytime
R. G. Collingwood: A Research Companion
Just published. British IdealismEpistemologyjames connellymetaphyicspeter johnsonR. G. Collingwoodstephen leach
Dorothy Emmet
I was reminded by a most prolific chum of mine about Dorothy Emmet who so kindly agreed to my coming up to Cambridge to ostensibly chat to her about Bosanquet. This was in 1990 when she was 86. Taking this opportunity to speak to someone of her calibre and longevity we spoke over a long lunch…
Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate
Here’s a review from NDPR — notwithstanding the reviewer’s criticisms, this may well be a useful update to a longstanding, and often infertile debate. The traditional opposition between social wholes and individuals rings a bit hollow to contemporary ears, not only because the poles of the opposition are only vaguely or ambiguously conceived, nor solely because…
Lost in the Cosmos
Here is astrophysicist Adam Frank’s insightful look at Walker Percy’s wonderful book. I don’t share Frank’s nor Lawler’s nor Percy’s optimism but I’m trying very hard. Also check out Peter Lawler’s take on LITC. There is one book that begins to answer these questions and I’m happy to pass it on. Walker Percy’s “Lost In…
Kant, Kästner and the Distinction between Metaphysical and Geometric Space
Here is a recent paper co-authored by a top-notch Kantian scholar (and much more besides), a man with two PhDs (earned, not honorary); one in applied mathematics and the other in philosophy (and no, not philosophy of mathematics or science), a man who has transcended the often trivial aspects of academic analytical philosophy and the…
David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926 – 13 May 2014)
H/T to Andrew Irvine. DMA’s wiki entry. david armstrongExternalismfunctionalismMaterialismmetaphyicsneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
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