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A quick comment before I’ve read the piece: It seems pertinent to both the debates and the assessment of the…
House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness, by François Kammerer, at Oxford University Press. The book is a defense…
Thanks, I will check this out as well! 🙂
For the nuts and bolts of “rudimentary forms of knowledge, their evolutionary origins…and unsophisticated social practices”, Sara Shettleworth’s incredibly detailed…
I suspect we differ on big picture questions about how correlated various different mental abilities are. I think a reasonable…
The changes coming to academia as we know it are too large for me to manage without confronting loss at…
The company in question here, Straive, is… not very good (in ways which I am sure are entirely representative of…
This has been going on about a month, I've only recently caught up on it. This is a good place to start. (Thanks to Benj Hellie for the pointer.)
ADDENDUM: Grad students at York University, Toronto are also striking..
UPDATE: Several readers sent the news that the strike is over, with an agreement to binding arbitration on the underlying issues.
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