Monday, July 23, 2007

Brief comments on articles in "Naturalizing Phenomenology"

Like the articles in Petitot et al. Dagfinn Follesdal "Gödel & Husserl", and Giuseppe Longo: "mathematical intuitionism and phenomenology". Mathematics has to be realised in a non-Platonic manner. Also links into Quine, to Gärdenfors conceptual approach, and even Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics.

Also good was the introduction to Husserl and naturalisation by the editors; Petitot's article (complex, theory-laden, but interesting); Tim van Gelder's article, Varela's article (both on time). the Thompson Noë Pessoa article quite good, though familiar and overall somewhat programmatic in the end.

Excellent commentary on Husserl and modern cognitive psychology and subjectivity by Maria Villela-Petit. Also good for Infallibility down the pub with The Generalissimo would be the last article (Jean-Pierre Dupuy), a look at the philosophical history of early and later AI and it's relevance to the debate about naturalising or even doing phenomenology.

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