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The Naked Truth

I’ve been thinking about what I now see as dressing this up: looking for the serious angle, preferably philosophical, but if not then sociological or whatever—and it does have that sort of potential, but I don’t have time to get into that sort of thing now—I have to write 20k words over the next couple [...]

May 30, 2010   Posted in: announcements  No Comments

Opposite extremes in psychotherapy?

I’ve both studied and experienced psychodynamic psychotherapy (“talking therapy”, like psychoanalysis) so I’m very interested in the fact that it’s gaining a good evidence base at last. Similarly, having experienced psychedelic drugs, I was interested to read that they are again being considered for therapeutic use. (This is the first time that I’ve publicly owned [...]

February 27, 2010   Posted in: announcements  No Comments

Meta-philosophy

I’ve been reading up on information, again (John Collier’s Intrinsic Information), which has nothing to do with what I’m supposed to be studying, and, probably as a consequence, thinking deep thoughts about my future in philosophy, and whether I really want to do a PhD (and if not, whether I still have reason to complete [...]

February 26, 2010   Posted in: announcements  No Comments

Second Annual Online Consciousness Conference

This might seem a bit gimmicky (or maybe I’m just behind the times—I certainly am as regards this announcement) but some big names are taking part.

February 23, 2010   Posted in: announcements, consciousness, philosophy  No Comments

My study plans

After much cogitation, mainly about PhD possibilities, but also (very briefly) about whether I even want to complete the MSc, yesterday I reached some firm conclusions, which I’m publicising to confirm my commitment to them (ie for my own benefit even if nobody else is interested, which is entirely possible). The main development yesterday was [...]

February 13, 2010   Posted in: Dennett, announcements, information, philosophy  No Comments

Dennett lecture on “free will”

A couple of years ago Daniel Dennett gave a public lecture at Edinburgh University on free will, determinism and compatibilism (the view that determinism and free will are compatible). He’s a very good speaker (as well as a great writer) and I think everyone who is interested in these issues should see this whether their [...]

January 11, 2010   Posted in: announcements  3 Comments

Tweetdeck makes it very easy…

to keep an eye on your Twitter and Facebook accounts (among others). You can post to them from it too, but that’s maybe not quite as convenient. It’s a free download, from http://www.tweetdeck.com/

January 8, 2010   Posted in: announcements  No Comments

Essay on-line

For what it’s worth, if anyone’s interested, I just uploaded my one-and-only piece of coursework this semester, an essay on theory-theory and simulation theory for the ontology of mind course. See Papers.

December 11, 2009   Posted in: announcements  No Comments

A researcher again!

I just realised how happy I am to be back to doing full-time research. Except that previously it was in subjects that, while certainly interesting, were far from what philosophy has always been for me, that is, simply fascinating. Well, some of it, anyway. Though I expect that much of the rest would be too, [...]

December 5, 2009   Posted in: announcements  No Comments

Blogging about the blog: metablogging?

It’s now clear I’m not going to have the time to blog about the experience of doing this taught MSc course. I’m sure my millions of readers will be devastated! I still hope to do the occasional blog on philosophical and personal topics, but we’ll see how it goes. On a brighter note, I’ve uploaded [...]

October 29, 2009   Posted in: announcements  No Comments