Adam Robbert on Merleau-Ponty
Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
In my last few posts, I’ve been working my way through the ideas set down by the late great Hubert Dreyfus. While I end up disagreeing…
Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
In my last few posts, I’ve been working my way through the ideas set down by the late great Hubert Dreyfus. While I end up disagreeing…
“The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. […]
Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Algorithmic governmentality, by its perfect ‘real time’ adaptation, its ‘virality’and its plasticity, makes the very notion of ‘failure’ meaningless……
So this hypercapitalist era or technics and technology in creating a Global Technocommercium is reformatting the very prospects of what it means to be human ridding it of the waste […]
Without the notion of ‘social constructs’ as “real” affective assemblages in the world our cognitive navigational mappings will remain just so many unreflexive reactions to banal perceptions of mere objects. […]
“The myth of cognitive agency: subpersonal thinking as a cyclically recurring loss of mental autonomy” | Thomas Metzinger EXCERPTS: “[G]iven empirical constraints, most of what we call “conscious thought” is […]
Postscript Reverse engineering brains is a prelude to engineering brains, plain and simple. Since we are our brains, and since we all want to be better than what we […]
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb6W_Pxosyg
Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
That is, until today. The one thing I try to continuously remind people is that philosophy is itself a data point, a telling demonstration…
Below is a video recording of philosopher and professor John Searle delivering a lecture on ‘Perception and Intentionality’ at the University of Cologne upon accepting Albertus Magnus Professorship in 2013: […]
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism (PDF) by Claire Colebrook Necessary reading for our purposes here: “Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism: this awful portmanteau word, in all its ungainly confusion, captures something crucial about the present. In the essay […]
Joe Cruz is a professor of philosophy at Williams College. He specializes in the philosophy of the mind and the theory of knowledge. His articles have appeared in Mind and […]
Hubert Dreyfus’ 31 lectures on Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
This is the second of a three-part series on ‘what we talked about at ISA’. The first part on technology in International Relations…
Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
I’ve been suggesting that the basic constituents of experience are neither ideas nor representations but activities of thought capable of generating ideas and representations. On…
Originally posted on Speculative Heresy:
Last week, I was privileged to be a respondent to a lecture entitled “The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the…
New ways of thinking about the nature of visual consciousness allow us to reconsider art and its place in our lives. In this talk, Alva Noë, a leading figure in […]