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The Ragged Trousered Philosopher or 'RTP' as we are affectionately known to our friends, is an exercise in Web authorship which has been going on since 1996 (the core 'book' was started in 1986), the title of which was inspired by Robert Tressell's classic 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'. But that's about as far as the resemblance goes. There is little doubt that life on Earth is headed in the general direction being painted here. Now, what is somewhat less certain is whether any remnants of the intelligent consciousness of our own species will survive 'coherently' into the future. Whether we are destined to be dust or deity will be determined by how well we learn to cope with the challenges of being intelligent. For the next several hundred years (at least), we will uncover ever more dangerous secrets of the universe. Our choices are: to die slowly - we could, with planet-wide agreement, probably eke out a few million years on this planet. Or can we think ahead? spam killer
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Photo is a gift from Cynthia Freeland. Taken by either by her or by Ken Alpern. Krist Bender, Cynthia's husband, scanned it. "Sellars is one of the most important philosophical writers of the century, perhaps of any century, and he was also one of the most outstanding philosophy editors of the century, perhaps of any century." Who was Wilfrid Sellars? Wilfrid Sellars, "Autobiographical Reflections: (February, 1973)" Published in Action, Knowledge and Reality, edited by H.N. Maintained by Andrew Chruckye-mail: ditext@ditext.comLetters to the Webmaster This site was created in November 1995.
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Ned Block, Department of Philosophy
NED BLOCK (Ph.D., Harvard), Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of perception and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science and is currently writing a book on the perception/cognition border, A Joint in Nature between Cognition and Perception. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Language and Information, a Sloan Foundation Fellow, a faculty member at two National Endowment for the HumanitiesSummer Institutes and two Summer Seminars, the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Science Foundation; and a recipient of the Robert A. Named Lectures: 2003 Petrus Hispanus Lectures, University of Lisbon 2006 Francis W. On-line videos
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