07 August 2008
01 August 2008
Embarassment?
This summer I'm working at a summer camp with a bunch of marine biologists and volcanologists, and so of course I'm repping Swarthmore's philosophy department by wearing our Thomas Nagel-reference t-shirt all the time. Turns out that, according the one of the biologists here, the illustration on the t-shirt is of a type of bat called a "flying fox," endemic to Australia and iconicly depicted in the Batman logo.
Problem is, flying foxes don't use echolocation. Which is a big part of the Nagel's point about the limits of our understanding of the subjective character of consciousness!
What's the first person plural form of "mea culpa"?
Problem is, flying foxes don't use echolocation. Which is a big part of the Nagel's point about the limits of our understanding of the subjective character of consciousness!
What's the first person plural form of "mea culpa"?
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