I was the instigator of- and the action editor in support of- this special issue seen through by the very excellent Phil Robbins. Philosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial cognitionSocial Neuroscience
Much of Noam Chomsky’s revolution in linguistics—including its account of the way we learn languages—is being overturned. Paul Ibbotson and Michael Tomasello in Scientific American Artificial intelligenceDescarteslanguageMichael TomaselloNoam ChomskyPaul IbbotsonPhilosophy of minduniversal grammar
I’m very much looking forward to the reissue of TSO conveniently bundled along with other important MSS heretofore only available as Hoover photocopies. Kudos to Viktor Vanberg for pulling this together and of course to Bruce Caldwell, the series’ general editor. bruce caldwellConnectionismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindthe sensory orderviktor vanberg
I chanced upon this video of Francisco Varela, clearly his illness at an advanced stage. I’m not a Spanish speaker so the substance of the video is lost on me. If you don’t know who FV is, here is an obituary by one of his closest friends and collaborators, the very excellent Evan Thompson. Running the video’s…
Latest issue of JMB now available. journal of mind and behaviorPhilosophy of mind
William review of Ryle’s posthumously published On Thinking. I paste in the text below image in case the free access is withdrawn. BTW, Ryle was born on this day in 1900. He was an exceptionally nice man, friendly, generous, uncondescending, unpretentious, and, for a well-known professional philosopher, startlingly free from vanity. . . . he conveyed a…
The richly eclectic Ed Feser has brought my attention to his latest paper. If you don’t know Ed’s work or at least his blog (as well as his popular writings), you really should explore his diverse interests. Ed is one of those highly unusual writers because he so naturally draws on contemporary, ancient and scholastic perspectives and this…
