D.G. Myers
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 72
“Irene!” Santa said angrily. “You all the time thinking of that boy, and with all the trouble he’s giving you. You better wake up, babe. If you had any sense, you woulda had that boy locked away at Charity Hospital a long time ago. They’d turn a hose on him. They’d stick a letrit socket…
Extensive enactivism: why keep it all in?
This open access from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Radical enactive and embodied approaches to cognitive science oppose the received view in the sciences of the mind in denying that cognition fundamentally involves contentful mental representation. This paper argues that the fate of representationalism in cognitive science matters significantly to how best to understand the extent…
Oakeshott conference details: Hull 2015
See here. a companion to michael oakeshottMichael OakeshottMichael Oakeshott AssociationPhilosophy
Extended cognition and the explosion of knowledge
Penultimate version. The aim of this article is to show that externalist accounts of cognition such as Clark and Chalmers’ (1998) “active externalism” lead to an explosion of knowledge that is caused by online resources such as Wikipedia and Google. I argue that externalist accounts of cognition imply that subjects who integrate mobile Internet access…
How it is possible to live fairly normally with half your brain missing
Michael Brooks in the New Statesman. Brainbrain scienceMichael BrooksNeural networkneuronsneuroscience
The God Delusion Debate (Dawkins-Lennox)
Here’s a follow-up to the last post, this featuring a debate between Dawkins and Lennox. dawkinsGodgod delusionlennoxphilosophy of religionrationalismReligionscience and religion
Why Take a Stance on God?
Gary Gutting interviews Keith DeRose Epistemologyepistemology of religious beliefExistence of Godgary guttingKeith deRosephilosophy of religion
Script for Butterfly in the Typewriter
Still on Toole, this just posted by Cory MacLauchlin. After the reading the actors talked about the colorful characters and the power of the dialogue. While most of them had heard of John Kennedy Toole, they had no idea how funny and heart-wrenching his life story was. a confederacy of duncesButterfly in the TypewriterCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy…
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 71
“Be sure to stress the importance of this historic conclave,” Ignatius said. “We shall want no fly-by-nights in this core group.” “There may be a few costumes. That’s what’s so wonderful about New Orleans. You can masquerade and Mardi Gras all year round if you want to. Really, sometimes the Quarter is like one big…
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