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Category: Jon Cogburn
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Yuck. This is the first one that didn't even bother to include a title of something I've published: Dear Jon Cogburn, I am writing on behalf of a German publishing house, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. In the course of a research on the internet, I came across a reference to your paper on "philosophy of…
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Bob Dylan is often the worst interpreter of his own songs. Not because of the old saw that his voice is bad (it's not). Rather, the songs themselves often combine the angry and the elegiac, but when Dylan does his own songs there's often a kind of sneering quality and so you don't hear the…
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There are two complimentary Gendered Conference Campaigns petitions,* Jennifer Saul's here and Eric Schliesser's here. Saul's petition and and supporting material (e.g. how to avoid a gendered conference here) focus on helping organizers of conferences and edited anthologies avoid having an all male lineup. Schliesser's applies more leverage, also focusing on those who might present…
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Article in Science Daily here, which claims that a lot of new evidence supports Roger Penrose's old conjectures about the the way that quantum physics is implicated in consciousness. If any philosophers of mind feel like explaining this to the rest of us, that would be very cool.
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In the same manner that world history is a struggle between grasses and trees*, the internet is a struggle between producers and consumers of media for control of the way in which media is displayed on the user's screen. The earliest versions of HTML were specifically designed so that the consumer had maximal control over…
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I'm posting this in the hopes that scholars of François Laruelle can add to the list. As people who have tried to read his difficult texts know, Ray Brassier is on to something when he writes (citation below): The truth is that his thought operates at a level of abstraction which some will find debilitating, others…
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My six year old is rocking out with MIT's Scratch. He's half way through this great book (we're doing this one next). It's really cool, because you can do real programming with a drag and drop interface; kids who can't type well can put together pretty complicated programs (youtube search "MIT Scratch tutorial" for examples). Below…
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Oh wow this looks awesome. I'll hitchike there if I have to. This year's Summer School is organized by Michael Forster and Markus Gabriel (discussed briefly in this post), and in addtion to Gabriel, Willem DeVries, Paul Redding, and Robert Stern will all be lecturing. I'm in the middle of two Stern books and they're…
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Imagine for a minute how you might respond if I were to insist that Cornell West can only be understood as a black philosopher and presented my own work in terms of the necessity of overcoming black philosophy. Imagine that my work involved understanding the history of philosophy in terms of a contrast between black…
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Philosophers' Carnival #159 is here. Lot's of great stuff, including one (By Chris Bartel) that contains the sentence "Punk recordings (at least some of them) are ontological anomalies in the wider tradition of rock. " We happy few!
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