Asseverations and Ejaculations
As a young man/teenager, I heard a lot about worldviews, and didn’t think much of it. The philosophers talked about them, the theologians talked about…
So, taking this extreme parsimony approach leads me to sharply distinguish between things that are and things we think there are. A good many of…
So, what have I been doing for the Covid Lockdown. Many things. This is one of them. The CRC Press link is here, but I’ll…
Most of you will already know that David Chalmers, the once-hirsute Australian philosopher of mind (only Rob Wilson seems to remain in the Hirsute Philosopher’s…
Well CRC Press haven’t learned their lesson yet, and have given me, Frank Zachos (Vienna) and Igor Pavlinov (Moscow) a contract for an edited book…
As a biological phenomenon the species problem is worthy of serious study as an end in itself, and not as a mere corollary to work…
As soon as somebody asks the question “what is a ____?” we get into trouble. Not because we do not know about the thing in the blank, but because we tend to have the wrong idea about how to answer that question. Since the Greeks, the general feeling is that to answer a question about such matters, one must define the shared and unique features of the type of thing.
Series Conceptual confusion The economics of cultural categories What are phenomena? What counts as sociocultural? Species Constructing phenomena Explanations and phenomena Anyone who has ever…
