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- Quotation from Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. In the 1940s he helped extend systems theory/cybernetics to the social/behavioral sciences, and spent the last decade of his life developing a “meta-science” of epistemology to […]
- The British Wittgenstein Society gets started
The British Wittgenstein Society (BWS) is opening its doors (well online at least): it’ll add up to the aready existing Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ALWS), International German Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ILWG) and North American Wittgenstein Society (NAWS). I am trying to get PhiloSURFical noticed and possibly tested by them – let’s see how it goes […]
- Discovery: philosophy in the digital Era
It looks like the semantic web rumor is spreading out fast, also in the philosophy circles: Discovery is co-financed by the European Commission under the eContentplus programme and was launched in November 2006. It has a twofold aim: to prepare an extensive collection of scholarly editions of primary sources and scholarly contributions for the study […]
- Philosophy On the Air
It’s nice to see the ancient philosophy keeping up with the new technologies – shows how the soul of philosophy is immortal, and linked to men instead of publication mechanisms. There’s a new podcast available, Philosophy Bites, created by Nigel Warburton (who teaches at the OU) and David Edmonds. The podcast makes available interviews on […]
- Internet research ethics: a first journal
I’m busy writing an article these days, which sort of feels like being in a long and tiring trip to the underworld.. So, since I can’t really spend time on anything else but I still wanted to post something, here’s a brief philosophy/technology related news: The IJIRE is the first peer-reviewed online journal, dedicated specifically […]