tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post4292158806629345455..comments2024-03-20T13:10:11.477+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: Nobel Season: Meet the Ig NobelsAbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-61836040862176401332011-09-30T22:13:53.492+05:302011-09-30T22:13:53.492+05:30I would've enjoyed Perry's "Personal ...I would've enjoyed Perry's "Personal Identity" a lot more if I knew about this essay before!<br /><br />To those interested, it contains Derek Parfit's famous essay on the topic, which anticipates some of the recent cognitive neuroscience work on out-of-body experiences and the Alice illusion. <br /><br />http://mind.ucsd.edu/syllabi/03-04/phil1-spring/readings/parfit.pdf<br /><br />http://www.sciencemag.org/content/317/5841/1048.abstract<br /><br />http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/abstract/S1364-6613%2808%2900250-7<br /><br />I personally think Indian science, particularly neuroscience, suffers from the lack of imaginative AND rigorous philosophy (most philosophy, everywhere, fits only one of these criteria, usually the latter). It would be nice to have at least one good philosophy department, in one of the better institutes like TIFR or NCBS.MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602935324853274666noreply@blogger.com