The renaissance will not be televised

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Mathematical Diversity and Elegance in Proofs: Who will be the next Renaissance man?

It has been claimed by some mathematicians that Bernhard Riemann was the last great ”Renaissance man” of mathematics, in that he was quite knowledgeable of–and, indeed, proved major theorems in–several seemingly disjoint branches of the subject. One could argue for other notable exceptions from the 20th century–perhaps John von Neumann, Bertrand Russell, even Douglas Hofstadter–but the fact rem...

The Revolution will not be Optimised: Enactivism, Embodiment and Relationality

Optimising the 4E (embodied-embedded-extendedenactive) revolution in cognitive science minimally requires the robust rejection of two guiding commitments made by orthodox thinking in the field, namely (i) an internalism about the whereabouts of our cognitive architecture, and (ii) the principle that intelligent thought and action are standardly to be explained in terms of the building and manip...

Reforming Schools of Education Will Not Be Enough

Information Will Be Free

Since the popularity of internet and new communication technologies, the issue of information sharing has become a matter of debate. In digital world, distances are meaningless and Information could be transferred to different parts of the world in few seconds. In this paper we discuss the effect of new technologies on licensed information and copyright law. We take this position that in modern...