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Pluralism and the Interrelational · August 8, 2026 · conversations series
Approaching interrelational pluralism from the pluralism side: a family of tracks that rightly never joined up in content, joined in the medium of expression — pluralist voices within envelopes of common understanding, a better position on pluralism's borders, disputes, and the realism question.
Approaching interrelational pluralism from the pluralism side: a family of tracks that rightly never joined up in content, joined in the medium of expression — pluralist voices within envelopes of common understanding, a better position on pluralism's borders, disputes, and the realism question.
The Worst Enemy of Science · August 12, 2026 · conversations series
Paul Feyerabend — the student who dismantled his teacher's programme. A wounded soldier who wanted to sing opera, and the philosopher who showed that science's greatest moves broke every rule: 'anything goes' as history's verdict, not his advice.
Paul Feyerabend — the student who dismantled his teacher's programme. A wounded soldier who wanted to sing opera, and the philosopher who showed that science's greatest moves broke every rule: 'anything goes' as history's verdict, not his advice.
The Crooked Timber · August 20, 2026 · conversations series
Isaiah Berlin — the boy who watched the Revolution and never forgot it. Value pluralism: genuine goods conflict, no formula resolves them, and that is not relativism.
Isaiah Berlin — the boy who watched the Revolution and never forgot it. Value pluralism: genuine goods conflict, no formula resolves them, and that is not relativism.
The Dawn of Cognition · August 24, 2026 · conversations series
What does it take to come to meaning in language? The trail runs from the seed principles through brain process models and AI until a word drops out: cognition — twofold in its relation to meaning, and widened into SPLectrum's definition: the process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through experience.
What does it take to come to meaning in language? The trail runs from the seed principles through brain process models and AI until a word drops out: cognition — twofold in its relation to meaning, and widened into SPLectrum's definition: the process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through experience.
Practices Without a Referee · August 28, 2026 · conversations series
Isabelle Stengers — from Prigogine's laboratory, where time's arrow became real, to cosmopolitics: an ecology of practices with no transcendent arbiter, reciprocal capture, the idiot, and thinking with Whitehead.
Isabelle Stengers — from Prigogine's laboratory, where time's arrow became real, to cosmopolitics: an ecology of practices with no transcendent arbiter, reciprocal capture, the idiot, and thinking with Whitehead.
Process Models of the Brain · September 20, 2026 · conversations series
Three process models of the brain, presented purely for the insight each brings: evolution, competition, error correction — our keywords; the field's own are selection, workspace competition, prediction-error minimisation.
Three process models of the brain, presented purely for the insight each brings: evolution, competition, error correction — our keywords; the field's own are selection, workspace competition, prediction-error minimisation.
The Field That Waited a Century · September 24, 2026 · conversations series
The story of basal cognition's beginning: a century of orphaned results — Jennings's trumpet cell, Gelber's erased experiments, an Ig Nobel slime mould — until Pamela Lyon inverted the question and gave the evidence a home.
The story of basal cognition's beginning: a century of orphaned results — Jennings's trumpet cell, Gelber's erased experiments, an Ig Nobel slime mould — until Pamela Lyon inverted the question and gave the evidence a home.