Only today did I learn of the passing of a colleague and friend, Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo. I’d met Gloria at an Atlas conference back in 2008 in Portsmouth. Dave Hardwick and I were most taken with the quality of her mind and equally by her conviviality and by her no-nonsense stance towards some of…
Gloria’s chapter. Friedrich HayekGloria Zúñiga y PostigoHayek in Mindmirror neuronsOntologySensory Orderspontaneous orders
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Very pleased to come across this book on one of my favourite philosophers. Here too is Michael Ayers’ review. Adam FernerDavid WigginsmetaphysicsOntologypersonal identityphilosophy of biologysameness and substancesortals
What has this to do with existentialism? We will pass over the epistemological consequences of symbolic knowing, the possession of the thing by the symbol rather than adaptation by signal-a knowing which is indeed existential in the broad sense of knowing something by being something-and go at once to the more typical existentialia. The recognition…
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I have never met Barry Smith in person but over the years he has been incredibly helpful and supportive of my various philosophical enterprises. Having only been familiar with Hayek’s social philosophy, it was Barry who first brought me to Hayek’s philosophical psychology and for that alone I’m especially grateful. Unlike so many in your…
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While working on a Barry Smith related project I was reminded of two fascinating papers by this incredibly productive, eclectic and just downright decent and responsive bloke whose work in ontology has had real and positive practical import for medical science. As you might be aware, many philosophers these days are in the business of self-aggrandizement, “activism posing as…
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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