Tim Crane
@timcrane
Philosopher and Pro-Rector at CEU Vienna. Director of Research, FWF Cluster of Excellence, 'Knowledge in Crisis'. Author of The Mechanical Mind, Elements of Mind, The Objects of Thought, Aspects of Psychologism, The Meaning of Belief www.timcrane.com
Tymofiy Mylovanov of the Kyiv School of Economics giving the 5th CEU 35th anniversary lecture in Budapest.
Very enjoyable chat with Rebecca Lowe this evening for her podcast, this time talking about consciousness
Alfred Brendel: 'The pianist has one implacable enemy: the piano, which continually tempts him to forget the musical meaning of a passage in mastering its mechanical difficulties’. I know what he means.
The Knowledge in Crisis Marathon Relay Team did the Vienna Marathon in 3 hours 30 minutes! Kati Farkas, Jonathan Kuntzen, Camilo Martinez and Matt Dougherty @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social
David Weberman, RIP. Our beloved colleague at CEU. A fine philosopher, a great colleague and a lovely man. We will miss him enormously @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
@philosophybites.bsky.social effective critique of Singer’s famous thought experiment
I just came across this picture by chance and was reminded of a line from a Gary Larson cartoon, 'there go the lords of creation'
France must have the most beautiful embassy in Vienna, seen here in the morning light of Schwarzenbergplatz. The French being who they are, probably chose it partly because of how it appears in the morning light
This is from @michaelpollan.bsky.social new book, A World Appears. It’s a superb book on the scientific search for the explanation of consciousness. Here he is talking to neuroscientist Kingson Man, who describes a psychedelic trip
Very pleased to have an essay (on Leibniz!) in this fine TLS book, edited by the excellent Andrew Irwin @thetls.bsky.social
This image (take from a talk at TU Wien last year) gives you an idea of the extent to which Elsevier has captured the Research reporting and support industry