http://www.metafilter.com/tags/philosophical Posts tagged with 'philosophical' at MetaFilter. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:19:36 -0800 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:19:36 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/78668/This%2Dis%2Dphenomenal <a href="http://fragments.consc.net/">Dave Chalmers</a> has just launched <a href="http://philpapers.org/">PhilPapers</a>, a directory of nearly 200,000 online papers in philosophy. This is a jawdropping and amazing resource for philosophical research. For evidence of the scope of this project and the care that has been given to it, see the <a href="http://consc.net/taxonomy.html">taxonomy of philosophy</a> that was developed for the site. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.78668 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:19:36 -0800 academia catalog chalmers index papers philosophical philosophy resource scholarship search painquale http://www.metafilter.com/53256/Dropping%2DKnowledge On September 9th 2006, 112 of the world's writers, artists, activists, and social entrepeneurs (<a href="http://www.droppingknowledge.org/web.www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/dk?ph=nominees">nominees here</a>) will gather for a <a href="http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/dk?ph=projects">Table of Free Voices</a> in Berlin, Germany, discussing questions about the important issues of today. Who provides those questions? <a href="http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/dk?ph=questions">You.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53256 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:49:31 -0800 berlin currentissues debate discussion event germany knowledge philosophical questions thoughts divabat http://www.metafilter.com/26928/Lev%2DSemyonovich%2DVygotsky%2Dand%2Dthe%2Dneuronauts%2Dguide%2Dto%2Dthe%2Dscience%2Dof%2Dconsciousness We are because of others. We are born into this world with minds as naked as our bodies and we have to rely on others to feed, clothe us, and to teach us to think of ourselves as selves. The key is language -- grammatical speech and human culture build upon the brain's biological capacities to create a mind that is something different again than that with which we are born. We are conscious because we can speak to others and ourselves, because we can speak of ourselves to others and ourselves. Language gives us as individuals, memory, and as groups, culture, the social memory. Or so <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19990423160218/werple.net.au/~andy/txt/lev1.htm" title="Thinking and Speaking by Lev Vygotsky">thought</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010802101038/http://www.bestpraceduc.org/people/LevVygotsky.html" title="It has been said of the Russian psychologist Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky that he possessed a Mozartian genius, yet he lived in a time and place that was not receptive to Mozarts. ">Lev </a><a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock//virtual/trishvyg.htm" title="Vygotsky: 'the central fact about our psychology is the fact of mediation' - Introduction, Higher and lower mental functions, Intramental vs intermental abilities, The zone of proximal development, Psychological tools, Semiotic potential and the decontextualisation of mediational means,References">Semyonovich</a> <a href="http://tip.psychology.org/vygotsky.html" title="Social Development Theory - The major theme of Vygotsky's theoretical framework is that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition. Vygotsky: ''Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, the social level, and later, the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). this applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. all the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.'' ">Vygotsky</a>, among others. Welcome to the <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~neuronaut/index.html" title="This site is a guide to the study of consciousness and complexity. It's serious - no wacky stuff (although psi, dreams, quantum-C and such-like come in for critical discussion). But it's also easy reading, much of it being based on the four books and many articles I've written on these subjects. You will find this site focuses on three basic arguments about the nature of consciousness. The first is that the human mind is bifold - as much a product of memes or cultural evolution as of the biology of brains. The second is that brain processing takes time - about half a second to develop a settled ''frame'' of consciousness. The third is that the brain is a specific example of something more mathematically general - a complex adaptive system (CAS). To understand consciousness demands getting deep into holism, hierarchy theory, biosemiosis, general systems theory, heterarchical causality and other obscure stuff that is guaranteed to blow the gaskets of any reductionist who dares to venture within.">the neuronaut's guide to the science of consciousness</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.26928 Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:57:32 -0800 ape biology brain consciousness culture deaf ephesus feral grammar groups heraclitus historical imagination johnmccrone language levsemyonovichvygotsky memory mentalimagery neuronaut philosophical scientific templegrandin y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/24184/Doughnutty%2DUniverse <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/science/space/11COSM.html?8isc">MMmmm, doughnut.</a> <small>(NYT link, reg. req'd)</small> Lots of great philosophical answers to the old universe question, like our galaxy is in some giant's fingernail, and others. How about this one? Our universe is the shape of a doughnut! <small>(more inside)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24184 Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:05:33 -0800 doughnut galaxy giant newyorktimes nyt philosophical shape universe msacheson