Brain Strain

Is here

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/04/21/1208742816514.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Who is the author? The man who wrote the software code or the computers that produce the final output?

http://unfspb.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/this-is-a-very-pleasant-pineapple/trackback/

Wittgenstein video.

The Current Philosopher’s carnival is at http://blog.kennypearce.net/admin/mt-tb.cgi/413 its theme is Idealism.

The next Philosophers Carnival is at MQPhil! YAY! The theme we chose is Open Source Philosophy; This may relate to the Philosophy of Open Source or to Open sourcing Philosophy (or anything in between).

Hope to read your piece there!

Cheers

Mention open source in most circles and someone will mention Linux, open office or more often “great idea, but I need Word as that is what is used at work.” If you were to say open source philosophy, you might end up with very similar responses. For whatever reason (sociologists will be able to answer that), the concpet of open source only seems to apply to computer software. I did a search on the terms open source philosophy, I got thousands upon thousands of returns, but all the ones I chose to click on talked about the philosophy of open source, not open source philosophy. So why can’t the concept of open source be applied to other fields, especially academic fields where new ideas are becoming fewer and fewer? (more…)