Excellent, very useful. Andy Clark, one of the authors of the paper under discussion, may have finally caught on to Dewey's pioneering work by the tim...
I understand the terminology PB. My use of the word "nonsense" was more expressive and emphatic than precise: I always found the plural usage unintuit...
I quite like Kant on consciousness as well as on cognition, not only in the transcendental deduction—where consciousness is at the same time self-cons...
Yes, that option exists too, although it cannot be delayed. Admin approval for new signups combined with email confirmation should work pretty well I ...
I've posted a call for submissions in the new article submissions category. Accepted articles will be published at , which is a blog. Good idea. Go ah...
As I noted above, the authors admit that you can always fall back on this kind of description if you want to, but it's arbitrary and unnecessarily com...
Total transcendence was never a condition for membership here but I'm happy if we've facilitated it when the need was great. I can ask support for the...
Just a quick note to again emphasize that abstract painting and sculpture, including the examples in the OP, are not conceptual art and have very litt...
The closest thing I can do to that, I think, is set things up so that new sign-ups have to be approved. But that makes things a lot less open than I w...
Rather than continue with my critique, I want to say something in support of the paper. Much of the criticism levelled at it so far in this thread—inc...
Well, feel free to do that. Several philosophers have given thought to the problem. I was just asking why you think one must define art before judging...
Go back to my original comment in the other thread and it should be clear. I'm not comparing a chair with art. I'm comparing two artefacts: a chair an...
Why? Do you have to first define 'chair' before judging the quality of a chair? If something can count as a chair, then it's a chair, and the same wit...
I half-expected that objection. The point is that the way we treat thing concepts is importantly different from the way we treat activity concepts. In...
You can paint a picture badly just as you can make a chair badly. Judgment takes a bit more effort though, because unlike bad chairs, there are no pra...
I think so, because I think there is such a thing as bad art, and that a lot of art is bad because of the way it is done, so that the way it is done c...
I like this paper a lot, but in the end I think it's a small piece of the puzzle and doesn't go far enough. I'll say at the outset that I agree with t...
I have a strange narrative about this, which I don't trust despite its being how I remember things. When I was about 12 years old I had a seizure on t...
Note that Malevich, Kandinsky and others went abstract well before 1920. No, or only if it's actually conceptual art as I described, in which artistry...
Epilepsy, but free of seizures for several years. A friend of mine, also with epilepsy, who had it under control for ten years, died during a seizure ...
Yes, I agree. It's a fallacy that inadequate technology is somehow good for that very reason. And that's why my "distraction-free mode" idea (above) c...
Yes, but this is about what people are used to. That a slow process involving several full page loads might force people to take their time is not a r...
One reason it's a bit less formal is the technology. The posting functionality works like Facebook comments. It's almost too easy to post, but things ...
Yes, I was also dissatisfied with the somewhat complacent treatment of memory. Here's Louise Barrett writing from the standpoint of a psychology and e...
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