Here’s an obituary by the ever excellent Jane O’Grady.
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Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?
Here is a skeptical take on the insights supposedly offered by the rise of behavioral economics as represented by Daniel Kahneman and others. Since I’m in the process of reviewing Kahneman it will be interesting to see if Levine’s take on behavioral economics jibes with my take on Kahneman in particular and behavioral economics in general – I have a strong sense that is unlikely to be the case.
Discount on Oakeshott Companion
In anticipation of the publication date (October) Penn State University Press are offering a 20% discount off the cover price of A Companion to Michael Oakeshott – download form here.
Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action
Glowing review of Bengson and Moffett’s edited book: edited works are very difficult to assess and often suffer from being uneven in quality. But as the reviewer says: “The wealth of its perspectives and accounts is not merely a blessing but also a nightmare for the reviewer.” So, nice one Marc!
Discussion of Turing Test
A discussion on the BBC World Service (H/T to David Livingston Smith).
Of the External Senses
This essay is well worth a read. H/T to Brian Glenney for bringing it to my attention (I hang my head in shame for not having read it before).
Interpreting Figurative Meaning
I’m looking for a suitably qualified reviewer for this new book, the review to appear in The Journal of Mind and Behavior.
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Empathy and the Extended Mind
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A Confederacy of Dunces Typescript Sold at Auction
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Herbert Simon
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust
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Review of Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics
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Frege’s puzzle and Frege cases: Defending a quasi-syntactic solution
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 16
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An Introduction to Ontology: From Aristotle to the Universal Core
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Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing
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Minds, Intrinsic Properties, and Madhyamaka Buddhism
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The End
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The social-cognitive dynamics of metaphor performance
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 15
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EPISTEME 10:2 – Privacy, Secrecy, and Epistemology
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Cosmos & Taxis: Vancouver 2013
