What, Why & How do we Know ?
Fixed Contact page, Fixed resource pages, Pirsig pages and Pirsig Photos page in terms of broken links and some minor re-organisation. If you find any broken links please let me know. (Still have Categories, Bibliography and RSS / XML feeds to sort. Getting there.)
I’ve uploaded the slides I used to present my paper at the 7 July 2005 Metaphysics of Quality conference. They include a link to the paper itself. The slides make less sense by themselves than the paper, which as Alice points out is pretty incoherent itself 🙂 [ The Paper ] [ The Slides (Require … Continue reading “MoQ Conference Slides On-Line”
Dean’s BA Dissertation “Pragmatism and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: A study of Robert Pirsig’s contribution to the Pragmatism of Peirce, James and Dewey.” is excellent. It points out explicitly how Pirsig’s MoQ adds constructively to Peirce, Dewey and James’ “American Pragmatism”, and more than that reminds us how far the “anything you like” caricature … Continue reading “Dean Summers Pragmatism”
Having finished Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, it was a toss-up between more Dennett or David Chalmers (or something completely different like Barbara Tuchman, still unread). Chalmers name-drops an impressive list of acknowledgments, but is brave enough to point out that Hofstadter (his original mentor) and Dennett largely disagree with him. I think he overhypes the exciting … Continue reading “David Chalmers Consciousness”
I’m trying to draft a couple of “considered” posts for here and for MoQ-Discuss. I’ve just about finished Dennett’s “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea”. It’s so good that perversely I’ve made almost no annotations, because it’s all note-worthy and in need of re-reading in future. I’ve blogged a number of points already, but there are some important … Continue reading “Important But Jumbled Thoughts”
Here are a selection of photos from the Robert Pirsig MoQ Conference, organised by Ant McWatt. 6th July 2005, at the Bear and Billet and on a River Dee cruise in Chester. 7th July 2005, at Liverpool University Philosophy Dept. ( Link or take copies as you wish, but please give credit if published. I … Continue reading “2005 Liverpool Photos”
Completed Hofstadter and Dennett’s “The Mind’s I” on the way back to Perth, Oz. Although it peters out a bit, with Hofstadter’s “Conversation with Einstein’s Brain” there are still more gems in there. After Lem’s excellent “Non Serviam” mentioned previously, we still have Ray Smullyan’s “Is God a Taoist”, John Searle’s “Minds, Brains and Programs”, … Continue reading “Mind’s I – Round-up”
Not sure yet whether all the conference papers are to be published – presumably on Ant McWatt’s site would make sense, or the MoQ.org site – it will be interesting to see if and how the BBC filmed documentary and any transcripts see the light of day. [My photographs published here.] [Horse has published proceedings … Continue reading “MoQ Conference Update”