This from The Economist.
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Morals and markets
Sandel plugging his latest. The journalist’s quote below has much resonance to me.
Even to a toddler’s mind, the logic of the transaction was evidently clear – if he had to be bribed, then the potty couldn’t be a good idea – and within a week he had grown so suspicious and upset that we had to abandon the whole enterprise.
The New Theories of Moral Sentiments
Peter Goldie
Here is the very excellent obituarist Jane O’Grady on the late Peter Goldie whom I met very briefly in a pub near UCL. I met Jane some eight years ago at a conference in, I think, Tunbridge Wells. She was a fascinating person to talk to and told me about the process of obituary writing, much of which I found amusing.
Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Check out this volume about to be released. Here is Jesse Prinz’ contribution “Is Empathy Necessary for Morality?“
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Oakeshottian Modes at the Crossroads of the Evolution Debates
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Geza Vermes: Death of a Great Scholar
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Kermit Ruffins: We Partyin’ Traditional Style!
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 13
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Mark Rowlands on the Extended Mind
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Kripke resigns as report alleges he faked results of thought experiments
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Social relationships and groups: New insights on embodied and distributed cognition
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Oakeshott on Science as a Mode of Experience
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 12
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Stigmergy and emergent behaviour
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The socially extended mind
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Consciousness and the social mind
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Science of Swarms
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Jazz as conversation
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Oakeshott on the Character of Religious Experience: Need There be a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
