The only philosopher I have enjoyed reading for many years is Ray
Monk (Southampton U)* as also the biographer of J. Robert Oppenheimer
("Inside the Centre"). Besides being a fascinating biography of a
modern Renaissance man, it describes the politics of those times
wonderfully well as well as being, for those who need it or want it,
a gentle initiation into sub-atomic physics.
(*His philosophical interests lie along Russell-Whitehead's
mathematical route.)
Keith
At 22:57 21/11/2012, Pete Vincent wrote:
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 .~.
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