For those of you who haven’t heard Oakeshott here is a rare BBC recording. The transcript can be found here – and the audio is here. Since the topic is philosophy of history, here is the opening paragraph of Geoff Thomas’ essay for Paul and my Companion: Omnis determinatio est negatio, says Spinoza: to specify the…
In a recent post I reminisced about my appreciation of Jonathan. Here is an official communique from Brooklyn College. Brooklyn CollegeEPISTEMEEpistemologyJonathan AdlerPhilosophyPhilosophy of Educationsocial epistemology
Three luminaries – Rob Rupert, Richard Menary and Jonno Sutton – discuss the topic on Australia’s Radio National The Philosopher’s Zone. P.S. H/T to Ken Aizawa for bringing Rupert’s review of Clark to our attention. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindRichard MenaryRob RupertRobert Rupert
Here’s a plug for the aforementioned title notable, to me at least because my chum, inspiration, and occassional co-author, Christian Onof, has the following entries included: Geometry, Mathematics Transcendental Aesthetic Antinomy Categorical Imperative Method (either representation or a priori-a posteriori also made the final version) There are also two short papers on: Kant and Euler, and…
One week to go until the 10th Biennial Toward a Science of Consciousness Plenary sessions consciousnessConsciousness StudiesDavid ChalmersDeepak ChopraLeonard MlodinowMenas KafatosNed BlockPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindqualiaStuart HameroffSusan BlackmoreTucson Arizona
I notice that EUP are still offfering issue 7:3 as a free download. How long this will last I don’t know but one might as well take advantage of this offer. Of course, check out our new home with CUP who are also making freely available six choice papers from other issues. Also check out the EPISTEME…
“What Isn’t For Sale” – Michael Sandel in the lastest issue of The Atlantic. communitarianMichael SandelPhilosophysocial epistemologySocial Sciences
Here is the introduction to Ed Feser’s paper from Hayek in Mind. In late 1952, F. A. Hayek sent his friend Karl Popper a copy of his recently published book The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology. In a letter dated December 2, 1952, Popper acknowledged receipt of the book and…
Anthony Crisafi and Shaun Gallagher in AI & Society (Volume 25, Number 1, 123-129): We examine the theory of the extended mind, and especially the concept of the ‘‘parity principle’’ (Clark and Chalmers in Analysis 58.1:7–19, 1998), in light of Hegel’s notion of objective spirit. This unusual combination of theories raises the question of how…
Here is a recent (2009) review of one of my favourite books. The review is infinitely warmer than the snippy Stebbing review I mentioned in a post some two years ago. HistoryMichael OakeshottOakeshottPhilosophyPhilosophy of historyrationalism
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