Unpacking some of the layers: Clearly, one aspect of this is that the *idea* of "the future", or what was "futuristic", for someone like me, was forged in childhood, which overlaps with this time (I turned 12 in 1999). Pre-9/11 optimism is a big part of it, too.

More to come.

Why? Because 3 out of the top 5 (namely, 3, 4, and 5) cited philosophers of mind are people who are part of the 4E and/or phenomenology-based views in phil mind and cog sci. A very interesting indication that what was once a minority report in phil mind is now a big player.

As always, James is a partial exception; though really I think he is a post-Kantian despite himself.

...intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."

-- From Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio play, 1938

Happy Halloween!

...over this small spinning fragment of solar driftwood which by chance or design man has inherited out of the dark mystery of Time and Space. Yet across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle...

...perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacence, people went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their dominion...

(Also, the snake has tiny little vestigial-looking legs, which is hilarious to me. Had the artist ever even *seen* a snake? Honestly, probably not...)

Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, para. 802 (modification of Pinkard's translation).

of my use of ‘experience’ are, for all practical purposes, insurmountable. I would substitute the term ‘culture’ because with its meanings as now firmly established it can fully and freely carry my philosophy of experience.”
(2/3)

Sad to missing talks by friends, and missing out on meeting new friends in the City of Dewey. I'm sure it will go splendidly, and I wish all attending the best! I am with you in Geist. @thehangedman.com @carlsachs.bsky.social

Regardless, though, I think the time is again ripe for pragmatism, not just in the academy, but at large.

This sounds uncharacteristically Peirce-triumphalist of me, but, I don't think it is unique to Peirce--my students often find pragmatism in general to be a bit of "fresh air". Though there is always the contingent that think that they 'miss the point', so it's not universal.