Hayek on Mill
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The Virtuous Whisky Drinker and Living Well
Richard Menary’s lovely essay I want to suggest that becoming a virtuous whisky drinker is not simply seeking after pleasurable sensations. Being a virtuous whisky drinker is taking pleasure in directing our senses at the complex array of tastes and smells that the beautiful dram affords us. My acquaintance enjoyed his sweet alcoholic mix, but…
Reviews of Stoppard’s The Hard Problem
New Scientist The Economist The Telegraph The Independent . . . and the original Chalmers paper. brain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid ChalmersneurosciencePatricia Churchlandphilosophical literaturephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiathe hard problemthomas nagel
Must cognition be representational?
William Ramsey in Synthese CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid Marrdistributed cognitionExtended MindFolk psychologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindrepresentationalismsituated cognition
Live Twitter Q&A for Propriety and Prosperity
Live Twitter Q&A on Monday 9 Feb at 8:30am PT, 11:30am UTC and 16:30 GMT. Adam SmithPropriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam SmithTheory of Moral SentimentsWealth of Nations
Nation’s Historians Warn The Past Is Expanding At Alarming Rate
. . . a report published Thursday by the American Historical Association has found that the past is currently expanding at an alarming rate. American Historical AssociationHegelHistorymetaphyicsphilosophical humorPhilosophy of historytime
Bringing Philosophy Back: 4e Cognition and the Argument from Phenomenology
If the science is willing to allow that cognition can be embodied, embedded, enacted and/or extended then cognition is, or can be, some or all of these things. If it is not willing allow this, then they cannot. If cognition isn’t at least embodied WTF are we taking about? Well put Mark Rowlands! 4eCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied…
Searching For Authentic New Orleans Music
Controversial view expressed in Offbeat Magazine. There is much to say for this view but I can think of plausible counter-arguments to do with the inherent dynamism of tradition which New Orleans is the instantiation par excellence. Music in New Orleans is indeed inextricable from the city’s lifestyle. “In the 6th Ward, 7th Ward, 9th Ward…
Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?
Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasituated cognition
The Philosophical Bowie
Here is Simon Critchley talking at Cornell. Love Critchley’s scathing take on Bono at about 50 mins in. What Bowie describes is a Büchnerian world of terror. The first line, “Silhouettes and shadows watch the revolution,” describes the languor and disappointment of a post-revolutionary situation. In an allusion to Eddie Cochran’s posthumously released 1960 hit, there…
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