Two modern philosophers whose work I enjoy are David Chalmers and David Z Albert. Chalmers I encountered online in the sci.philosophy groups in the early 90s when I think he was a grad student or post doc, and I was a bit surprised, and pleased, to find his name attached to an article in SciAm about six or seven years later. Later, I found some of his essays in a text from one of my son's philosophy courses. Cool. He is a pleasant repite from the reductionists and their AI- can-become-conscious nonsense, which I see is still getting traction via Ray Kurzweil's boosting.
Albert's book on QM I found browsing in a bookstore. It is the most concise and acute analysis of the philosophical aspects of quantum entanglement I have yet encountered, even though it is 18 years old now. I suppose he may have a newer one out now... -Pete On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Mike Spencer wrote: > > Mike G. wrote: > > > On the below you are only half right... A lot of Anglo-Saxonia and > > particulalry the Brits have been pre-occupied with the number of > > nits they could parse from the hind side of whatever mangy > > analytical dog might be roaming by... but there has also been some > > very interesting Philosophy of Knowledge, Philsopohy of Science, > > Phenomenology, even Existentialism which has been rather more true > > (to) life -- FWIW. > > Near the end of my sophomore year I contemplated changing my major > from chemistry to philosophy. After a little investigation, I came up > with this synopsis: > > The goal of philosophy is to construct sentences which begin, "It > may be said that...." > > The established philosopher strives to construct sentences which > begin, "It may be said, without fear of contradiction, that...." > > (I stayed with chemistry. :-) > > That somewhat sophomoric observation (Hey, I was a sophomore, okay?) > seems, in retrospect, to have contained a grain of truth. In any > event, I was much more taken, a decade or so onward, with Warren > McCulloch who described himself 60 or more years ago as an > "experimental epistemologist." His and his contemporaries' approach > has arborized, today, into cognitive neuroscience, neural modeling > and similar domains. > > I still bog down trying to read stuff billed as philosophy, much the > same as with economics. Well, I did confess that my perspective on > philosophy was "notably under-informed". > > - Mike > > -- > Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. > /V\ > [email protected] /( )\ > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
