Wait a minute, there’s a senior philosopher, independently from MIRI/FHI, going around giving talks about how we should invest effort and money on philosophically addressing the most important problems? Why aren’t we funding this? He should be ‘lobbying’ universities’ deans and whatnot.
Also, you just mistakenly pictured Russell while attempting to draw another guy. Left dude IS Russell.
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2013/10/progress-in-philosophy-revisited.html
Wait a minute, there’s a senior philosopher, independently from MIRI/FHI, going around giving talks about how we should invest effort and money on philosophically addressing the most important problems? Why aren’t we funding this? He should be ‘lobbying’ universities’ deans and whatnot.
Also, you just mistakenly pictured Russell while attempting to draw another guy. Left dude IS Russell.
The source material sent to the odesk cartoonist was a photo of Suppes, believe it or not. :)
He migh have used this one http://www.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/cover/Ferrario-cover-web.jpg ? Seems to be also mirrored.