Hace mucho que en Europa las máquinas reemplazaron a los animales que trabajan. Con la repentina entrada del automóvil, por ejemplo, los caballos desaparecieron de las carreteras. “Perdieron” los caballos y ganó el motor de combustión. Y perder implica que, en unos pocos años, desde 1915 a 1960, la población equina se contrajo de 22 a 3 millones. More...
My Philosophy and My Context
John Spencer, edrethink, January 18, 2013
John Spencer writes about his philosophy of education. He writes, "As a teacher, I become a guide to help them become the connective, critical, creative problem-solvers that a democratic society needs in order to flourish." It makes me think about what my own philosophy of education might be - an especially pertinent question, given that I'm a real philosopher and all. More...
It is a great pleasure for me, Grahame, to speak here tonight at your retirement dinner. I myself have been the subject of such a dinner a couple of months ago, when I retired as EI GS, so I think I understand what you are going through. And, in the words of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhaur: “The worst is yet to come”. The withdrawal symptoms I mean. More...Con las nuevas decisiones del Gobierno y planteamientos educativos, la filosofía está, una vez más, en el candelero. ¿Es útil? ¿Sirve para algo? ¿Tiene sentido cultivarla en el siglo XXI? ¿Merece la pena estudiarla y enseñarla. Más...
If left unarticulated, you might stumble into one and somewhat accidentally live into it, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt warns. More...Philosophy Only A Philosopher Could Love?
Jonathan Livengood, Metafilter, January 2, 2012.
Jonathan Livengood calls this "philosophy only a philosopher could love," and while I don't actually stand as a counterexample, I think there might be wider love for Clark Glymour's manifesto than the author suggests. His point of view, in a nutshell, is that for all the criticisms logical positivists receive, they contributed much of value to society, including not only computational logic and artificial intelligence, but a better and more moral view of the world than, say, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. I have said many times that "my morality is based on my science; my science isn't based on my morality." Though Hume famously said you cannot derive an "ought" from an "is" I take it as foundational to ethics that you can't simply argue your way out of what is a transparently flawed morality. More...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
After my discussion of Tversky the other day, a reader wrote to remind me of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of perception. Critcizing my paper on Relevant Similarity, the reader wrote, "it is the primacy of our perceptions, which are similar to each other (in terms of how and what we generally perceive) that is the tool for our cognition." Quite right, but to clarify, this is why a system of formal reasoning is inadequate to explain cognition, because if this is all we have, the senses are not sufficient for the task that they actually accomplish. More...
Le bonheur est une notion alors compliquée et ambiguë. Pas de bonheur sans travail, sans argent, opposé à l’argent et le travail ne mène pas au bonheur. Le bonheur est lié alors au laxisme, à la paresse. C’est un leitmotiv que l’on retrouve à la maison, au travail mais aussi à l’école. Plus...
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