Consciousness Online ’12
Here is the programme for the soon to be happening CO4 conference, a great initiative started by Richard Brown. consciousnessPhilosophy
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Liberal Education
A review in The Economist of Stefan Collini’s What Are Universities For? The best articulation of the instrumental/intrinsic debate is still Oakeshott’s The Voice of Liberal Learning. Here is the first essay from VLL online. And Paul Franco is tackling this topic for the Oakeshott Companion. Mr Collini is moved by Newman’s insistence that a liberal education is…
A Romp Through Philosophy of Mind
Here is the delightful Marianne Talbot (thrown out of school at 15 for “truancy and disruption”) presenting four podcasts: Part 1: Identity Theory and Why it Won’t Work Part 2: Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the Problems they Face Part 3: If Physicalism won’t work, what is the alternative? Part 4: Are we asking the wrong questions?…
Patricia Churchland
Having missed Pat Churchland’s talk at NEI this past October, it was great that she was in town for a full week of speaking engagements not to mention interviews and other demands being made on her time (and she is supposedly retired!). It was a pleasure to meet her (finally!) having followed her work over the…
Review of Steve Pyke’s Philosophers
On several occasions I’ve featured Steve Pyke’s work – Habermas of two posts back has been Pyked. Here is a review by a philosopher of Steve’s book. There is also brief mention in The New Yorker. The image featured above is of course Jerry Fodor. habermasJerry FodorPhilosophersPhilosophysteve pyke
Philosophical Training to Professional Blogging
Some of the most talented professional bloggers in the U.S. have backgrounds in philosophy. Is this just a coincidence or is there a causal relationship between philosophical training and the demands of professional blogging? In addition to learning about the philosophical backgrounds and abiding interests of three of the most prominent bloggers in the U.S.,…
Safety, Luck, and Gettierization
Sandy Goldberg gave an excellent talk yesterday. I’m looking forward to seeing some version of this coming out as a fully-fledged paper. Sandy is of course referring to one of the most famous papers in post-War philosophy. Abstract. According to the widely-endorsed safety condition on knowledge, S knows that p only if: not easily would…
EPISTEME Revamp
To coincide with the move to Cambridge University Press here are some links: Leaflet (pdf): please distribute EPISTEME @ CUP EPISTEME website Cambridge University PressEPISTEMEEpistemologyPhilosophysocial epistemology
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 1990 Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already…
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
The new journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology has all its content freely available for download until December 31, 2011 A quarterly journal fostering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences of the mind The only journal covering the main philosophical and theoretical trends in the field of cognitive science in a format…
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