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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Blog to get relaunched (yet again)
Well I didn’t manage to do any more posts on my holiday, but that’s fading fast, like my tan, so onwards and upwards… What I intend to do with this now is record my academic work and experience, to whatever extent time allows. I’m fairly sure I want to put my essays on-line, and I’ve [...]
September 30, 2009
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Il Pleut…
…not right now, but it seems a good title given what my day’s been like. It got off to a good start, getting away from the hotel near Canterbury in good time to catch the 8am sailing from Dover to Dunkerque (check in 45 minutes early, after dealing with customs and passport control, which in [...]
September 1, 2009
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My knee and me
Nobody understands me. OK, that’s an emotional over-reaction. Nobody understands my knee. But that’s not true either. Or rather, it is and it isn’t. I have a patellar maltracking problem in my left knee, due to atrophied quadriceps muscles, in turn due to previous knee problems. As the knee bends and straightens, the kneecap tracks [...]
August 21, 2009
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