A Conversation with Larry Brown

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Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

Larry Abbott

Larry Abbott Columbia University Larry Abbott is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University. He received his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1977 and worked in theoretical particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at CERN (the European center for particle physics), and as a physics faculty member at Brandeis. Abbott began a transi...

A Tribute to Larry Erlbaum

The editorial board of Cognitive Science had mixed emotions on hearing the news that Larry Erlbaum was selling Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) to Informa, parent company of Taylor and Francis. Larry has been an ardent supporter of the Cognitive Science Society since its inception. LEA has published the print version of the conference proceedings and since 2005 has been the publisher of the jo...

Larry Weiskrantz

He found himself at loggerheads in the European Commission with Joe Borg, the European fisheries commissioner from Malta. Borg was insisting that time be allowed for a bluefin recovery plan which had been agreed by Iccat. But its poor record on protecting stocks has angered conservationists. One of Dimas’s officials said: “They need to come up with conservation protection measures that live up ...