Hegel, Heidegger, Adorno in konci umetnosti
Jos de Mul. Hegel, Heidegger, Adorno in konci umetnosti (in Slovenian). Filosofsji Vestnik.Vol. XXIII, no. 1, 103-136.
Hegel, Heidegger, Adorno and the Ends of Art
Jos de Mul. Hegel, Heidegger, Adorno and the Ends of Art. In: Dialogue and Universalism, Vol.XIII, no.11-12, 23-41.
Grondslagen van de esthetische opvoeding
Jos de Mul. Grondslagen van de esthetische opvoeding. In: Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Opvoeding, Vorming en Onderwijs, Jrg.4 (1988), nr.3, 126-142.
Grenzen aan de rechtvaardiging
Jos de Mul. Grenzen aan de rechtvaardiging. In: Wijsgerig perspectief op maatschappij en wetenschap, jrg. 33 (1992/93), nr. 2, 30-36.
From Odyssey to cyberpunk. Literary exploration of space vs. spatial exploration of literature
Jos de Mul. From Odyssey to cyberpunk. Literary exploration of space vs. spatial exploration of literature. XPONIKA AIΣΘHTIKHΣ/ Annales d'esthetique / Annals for Aesthetics, Vol.42, 2004: 111-127.
From Mobile Ontologies to Mobile Aesthetics
Jos de Mul. From Mobile Ontologies to Mobile Aesthetics. In: Contemporary Aesthetics. Special Volume I: Aesthetics and Mobility. 2005, 12 p.
From Mobile Ontologies to Mobile Aesthetics
Abstract Key Words Europe – the tragic continentJos de Mul. Europe - the tragic continent. Michigan Paper Series. International Institute, University of Michigan, 2008.Jos de Mul Two weeks ago, in his lecture in this series on Europe, Neal Ascherson asked two intriguing questions: ‘Where is Europe?’, and ‘When is Europe’. Intriguing because it turned out that these seemingly simply questions are very hard to answer. Today I want to add a third question, as simple as the other two and as difficult to answer. This question is: Whatis Europe? In a sense, we may regard this third question as the primordial one, as we can start our search for Europe in time and space only when we at least have a slight idea of whatwe are actually looking for. So the question I want to address this afternoon is: what is it that makes Europe European? And as the title of my talk already indicates, the answer I will defend today is that Europe first and foremost is a tragic continent. Etiketten plakken op de golven van de zee: Frederik van Eeden als vitalistJos de Mul. Etiketten plakken op de golven van de zee: Frederik van Eeden als vitalist. Frederik van Eeden-Genootschap. Mededelingen LV. Maart 2011, 6-19.
Inleiding Laat ik mijn voordracht beginnen met het uitspreken van enkele woorden van dank en vrees. Laat ik met de dank beginnen. Het is mij een grote eer vandaag de jaarlijkse rede voor het illustere Frederik van Eeden-Genootschap te mogen uitspreken. Vooral gezien het feit dat we dit jaar, morgen om precies te zijn, de 150ste geboortedag van Frederik van Eeden vieren. Het is mij tevens een groot genoegen, omdat Frederik van Eeden ook een van mijn grote literaire jeugdliefdes is geweest en een belangrijke stempel heeft gedrukt op mijn persoonlijke ontwikkeling gedurende mijn middelbare schooljaren, en die jaren behoren – zeker als het gaat om de artistieke, politieke en filosofische voorkeuren die men ontwikkelt – tot de belangrijkste in een mensenleven. Encyclopedias, hive minds and global brains. A cognitive evolutionary account of WikipediaJos de Mul. Encyclopedias, hive minds and global brains A cognitive evolutionary account of Wikipedia. 立命館言語文化研究29巻3号. Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture. Volume 29, no.3 (2018), 143-153.AbstractWikipedia, the crowd-sourced, hypermedial encyclopedia, available in more than 290 languages and consisting of no less than 40 million lemmas, is often hailed as a successful example of the ʻwisdom of the crowdsʼ. However, critics not only point at the lack of accuracy and reliability, uneven coverage of topics, and the poor quality of writing, but also at the under-representation of women and non-white ethnicities. Moreover, some critics regard Wikipedia as an example of the development of a hive mind, as we find it in social insects, whose ʻmindʼ rather than being a property of individuals is a ʻsocial phenomenonʼ, as it has to be located in the colony rather than in the individual bees. In this article an attempt is made to throw some light on this controversy by analyzing Wikipedia from the perspective of the cognitive evolution of mankind. Connecting to Origins of the Modern Mind (1991) of neuropsychologist Merlin Donald, in which three stages in the cognitive evolution - characterized by a mimetic, an linguistic, and an external symbolic cognition respectively - are distinguished, it is argued that the development of the internet, and crowd-sourced projects like Wikipedia in particular, can be understood as a fourth, computer- mediated form of cognition. If we survey the cognitive evolution of hominids and the role played in this evolution by cultural and technical artefacts like writing, printing press, computers, and internet, we witness a process of increasing integration of individual minds. With outsourcing and virtualization of the products and processes of thinking to external memories, and the fast development of implanted computer interfaces, we appear to be at the edge of the materialization of the hive mind in a ʻglobal brainʼ. The article ends with some speculative predictions about the future of human cognition. Keywords: encyclopedias, Wikipedia, wisdom of the crowds, cognitive evolution, hive mind, global brain Echo's van een laatste GodJos de Mul. Echo's van een laatste God. Filosofie & praktijk Jrg. 28. nr. 1 (2007): 16-24.Disavowal and Representation in Magritte's La Trahion des ImagesJos de Mul. Disavowal and Representation in Magritte's La Trahion des Images. In: Filozofski vestnik, Vol. XVII, 1no. (1996), 107-126. |