Happy to announce this NEH Summer Institute at UC Berkeley, co-directed by @christiancoseru.bsky.social @alvanoe.bsky.social and yours truly @evanthompson.bsky.social www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~skneh/
Self-Knowledge for Humans and Artificial Systems – NEH Summer Institute, UC Berkeley
An interdisciplinary NEH Summer Institute exploring the nature of self-knowledge in humans and artificial systems
ocf.berkeley.edu
Tonight! An experiment, a conversation, an encounter. It's not too late to sign up to participate. mindandlife-europe.org/events/arts-...
Mind and Life Europe | Arts & Enaction
A New Series Hosted by Prof Alva Noë with Guest Fabrice Mazliah At the centre of our year devoted to Arts & Aesthetics in the Enactive Fold, Prof Alva Noë will be...
mindandlife-europe.org
Thanks to @nickriggle.bsky.social , J. Reid Miller, Samantha Matherne, and Florian Grosser, and to everyone who attended the session on *The Entanglement* at the San Francisco APA (@apaphilosophy.bsky.social ). Thank you all!
Out now! Noë, Alva; Kargin, Fatma; Zahn, Manuel: Über das Töpfern, Taylor Swift und Sex Pistols. in: Ästhetik der Reorganisation, Zeitschrift für Kunst Medien und Bildung, 2025 www.academia.edu/127600266/%C... zkmb.de/sammlung/aes... #Ästhetik #Phenomenology
Understanding is a point-of-do, not a pov. An important article by @marielgoddu.bsky.social, out today! aeon.co/essays/causa...
Causal understanding is not a point of view, it’s a point of do | Aeon Essays
Humans have a superpower that makes us uniquely capable of controlling the world: our ability to understand cause and effect
aeon.co
Excellent take-down by Jessica Riskin of the extremely misguided idea that science tells us we have no free will. Riskin's diagnosis is very similar in spirit and content to @adamfrank4.bsky.social @mgleiser.bsky.social and my ideas in The Blind Spot. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Turtles All the Way Up | Jessica Riskin
The idea that living beings have no free will might sound scientific today, but it remains as dogmatic as it has always been.
nybooks.com
Today, we taught Unflattening along with the first few chapters of Strange Tools. They go together perfectly. @nsousanis.bsky.social @alvanoe.bsky.social
José M. Muñoz, Javier Bernacer, Alva Noë & Evan Thompson, "Why AI will never be able to acquire human-level intelligence," www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why AI will never be able to acquire human-level intelligence
Letter to the Editor
nature.com
Join me at Matthew B Crawford for a talk about The Entanglement at Clio's in Oakland on 23 January at 7 pm! www.eventbrite.com/e/life-art-a...
The conversation about The Entanglement with Jonathan T D Neil and me at the Brooklyn Rail is now online here. With my compliments! www.youtube.com/watch?si=1al...
Please join me *online* for a conversation with Jonathan TD Neil about The Entanglement at @thebrooklynrail today at 12pm NY Time. Poets, artists, philosophers welcome! brooklynrail.org/events/2024/...
Friends in NYC: I'll be in conversation with painter Alexi Worth about my new book The Entanglement at McNally Jackson on Fulton Street on Wednesday 29 November 2023 at 7 pm. Alexi is brilliant and I'm excited to see what happens. Please join! www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/alva-n...
Things to do in Seattle on Monday 20 November 2023! everout.com/seattle/even...
More Berlin Happenings: Come hear Berkeley's Fumi Okiji on "Toward gathering-work; or To hold one another/ As other kin." This public lecture will take place on Wednesday the 15th of November at 6 pm. More details here: www.normativitaet-kritik-wandel.de/news/Lecture...
Friends in Berlin: I'm giving a talk at the Philosophy Department at the FU on Wednesday the 15th of November at 10. The topic is perception and love. Please come! www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
Please join us (Lawrence Weschler, Chaim Goodman-Straus, me) for a conversation with Hans Noë about his work on Tuesday, 17 October 2023, at the National Museum of Mathematics (11 East 26th, NYC, on the northern rim of Madison Square Park) at 6 pm. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/a...
