[Editor's Note: Here's a guest post from Evan Gould, who was good enough to record the second discussion of the Not School Philosophy of Mind group for your pleasure. Go sign up to be a PEL Citizen so you can listen to the discussion now.] Within roughly the first half of his 2004 book Mind: A Brief Introduction, John Searle provides a sweeping overview of the progression of Continue Reading …
Not School: John Searle’s “Mind: A Brief Introduction” (Second Discussion)
Continuing on 1/17/13 the discussion begun in part 1, by which time the group had read the whole book. Continue Reading …
Not School: John Searle’s “Mind: A Brief Introduction” (First Discussion)
Featuring Evan Gould, Bill Burgess, Alan Cook, Steven Lindsay, Daniel Cole. Recorded 1/2/13. Within roughly the first half of his 2004 book Mind: A Brief Introduction, John Searle provides a sweeping overview of the progression of the philosophy of mind from Descartes's Substance Dualism, through developing stages of thought characterized by various facets of Materialism, Continue Reading …
Science Proves Heidegger (Partially) Correct?
Irony so overwhelming I want to tweet about it with a #Heidegger hashtag: A scientific study recently found empirical support for Heidegger's concept of zuhanden, which was discussed in the Being and Time podcast.* Wired Science covered the story last year, but the study itself is short enough that you can get through it during a lunch break. To quote the summary section of Continue Reading …
Consciousness (Intentionality) as Transcendent
An important point on the Husserl episode that I was trying to get across was his notion that "intentionality" as he uses it doesn't just mean that all conscious acts have a target, i.e. something you're conscious of, but that this content is not itself something subjective. When we grasp something in consciousness, we're not just contemplating our own sensations (as Continue Reading …