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There’s Something About Mary
Frank Jackson on the Mary thought experiment and “Epiphenomenal Qualia” Elsewhere I’ve written: Jackson’s thought experiment bears a striking resemblance to Hayek’s discussion in The Sensory Order, 1.95. Hayek took inspiration from C. D. Broad, the idea that an omnipotent being would still not be able to predict the qualia associated with a substance, for…
George Avakian interview
An emotional highlight of the 2013 Satchmo Summerfest in New Orleans as legendary record producer George Avakian was interviewed by Louis Armstrong historians Ricky Riccardi and David Ostwald about a 9-CD boxed set of live recordings of Armstrong that Avakian produced in the 1950s. Towards the end of the interview, the 94-year-old Avakian listens to…
Mardi Gras
Some photos of the main parade. Mardi Grasnew orleans
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 51
“The sisters loved Ignatius. He was such a darling child. He used to win all them little holy pictures for knowing his catechism.” “Them sisters shoulda knocked his head in.” “When he useta come home with all them little holy pictures,” Mrs. Reilly sniffed, “I sure never thought then he’d end up selling weenies in…
David Chalmers and Andy Clark Interview
This from the New Philosopher. Andy’s colleagues at Edinburgh in the epistemology department proposed the extended knowledge project, where you start thinking of knowledge as this extended process that involves interaction with the environment. I’ve been calling it stigmergic epistemology. active externalismAndy ClarkCognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid ChalmersEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsocial epistemologyStigmergy
Why Study Philosophy?
This from The Atlantic. Philosophyphilosophy of economicsPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of historyPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of mindphilosophy of religionPhilosophy of sciencephilosophy of social science
What Louis Armstrong Really Thinks
This from The New Yorker. JazzLouis Armstrongmusicnew orleansracism
Extended cognition: New philosophical perspectives
Here’s a special issue of Philosophical Psychology that features some top-notch names that includes Ed Hutchins, Rob Wilson and Sven Walter. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial cognition
The Moviegoer – quotes and extracts – 5
He was unaffected by the singularities of time and place. His abode was anywhere. It was all the same to him whether he catheterized a pig at four o’clock in the afternoon in New Orleans or at midnight in Transylvania. . . . Yet I do not envy him. I would not change places with…
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