I’m teaching a course in the Philosophy Department at San Jose State in Fall, 2005.

Here’s a link with more information. Philosophy 115: Computers and Philosophy, Fall 2005. If you feel like it, print this handy one-page announcement and post in a suitable location as a reminder.

In short, the class meets once a week, 4:00 – 6:45 PM on Thursdays. I'd like to have as many people as possible enjoy this class, so even if you're not a fulltime SJSU student, consider taking the course through the SJSU Open University. Maybe you can get off work a little early on Thursdays this fall! And I know it overlaps with suppertime, so feel free to bring a sandwich.

In this course we'll discuss the philosophical meaning of computers. The presentations will be non-technical. We'll use in-class lectures and demos, and about a third of each meeting will be devoted to group discussion.

I’ll be using my upcoming book The Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul as the textbook.

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There was an article in the New York Times about R. Crumb, hero of my youth. He did a public interview with the art critic Robert Hughes, who’s compared Crumb to Bruegel. Crumb modestly demurs.

[Picture from the recent book,The R. Crumb Handbook, by R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski (MQ Publications Ltd.)]

I’ve often thought of the Crumb/Bruegel connection;if you look at Bruegel’s few remaining sketches from life (admittedly the attributions of these are shaky), they look for all the world like Crumb drawings. I mailed Crumb my Bruegel novel As Above, So Below a couple of years back.

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