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| author | Henry Thompson <ht@markup.co.uk> |
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| date | Wed, 14 May 2025 10:49:14 +0100 |
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Jim's housemate is an editor - Nora Deference Humility and Awe talk to be transcribed? What are we aiming at? A short more accessible book, oriented towards a public audience? Interesting properties of the DFA talk: Skeleton? Talk is drenched with insightful remarks and allusions HST: aim to a) Convince people of certain propositions b) Excite people about the possibility of a new way to approach our understanding of [r-s] BCS: Contemporary ... taking on subject matters that have classically been considered from [r-s] These accounts do not do justice to such topics E.g. reducing truth to syntactic consistency Because they fail to take account of embodiment, indexicality, non-effectiveness How to conclude: They none-the-less have something to contribute They are at best a waste of time, as omitting [ein-e] renders them useless CR sub-title -- something like "Exploring the foundations of computing" or, bolder, "New foundations for computing" Elevator pitch(es) for CR: The appropriation of concepts and vocabulary from philosophy of mind and of language by computer science not only misuses them, that _mis_appropriation actually undermines the adequacy of the resulting account. [HST] If one recognises the central, indeed essential, role of non-effective relations, one not only hews closer to the usages of philosphy, it does a better job of explaining. But the centraiity it gives to non-effective relations violates long-standing canons of what it is to be scientific.
