Mind and Behavior 33:1-2
The latest issue of the eclectic JMB. American Psychological AssociationBehaviorChinese RoomChristianityCognitive scienceEvolutionjournal of mind and behaviorMind
Monthly Archive Browsing Month: January 2013
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Edmund Burke
Today marks the birth of Edmund Burke. I find it tiresome that Burke is viewed as some sort of crude reactionary – his work is eminently humane, thoughtful and civilized and despite his ostensibly conservative outlook, it resembles nothing that modern-day fundamentalists who lay claim to the mantle of conservatism, will recognize. As Ian Harris points…
Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt
I guess if anyone could pull off this it would be von Trotta. We will see. Adolf EichmannArendtHannah ArendtHeinrich BlücherMargarethe von TrottaMartin Heideggerthe banality of evil
And a Bottle of Rum
New Orleans-based Wayne Curtis is one of the most knowledgable and most eloquent writers on all things boozy and especially the trend towards slow cocktails. Though he writes on much more besides it is through his The Atlantic column that I know his work and made a point of meeting him when he was in Vancouver…
Bowie’s back
The Economist pretty much captures the bind that Bowie has faced over his career. The man who retains the longest stretch of creativity in rock music (1971-1980) blew it by trying to keep cutting edge. With his genuinely great crooning voice he could have out done Rod Stewart’s American Songbook by a mile, but instead…
John Everett Millais’ Mariana
Having just viewed the Tate’s fantastic pre-Raphaelite exhibition I thought I’d share my favourite piece, the highly erotic Mariana by John Everett Millais. Oil on Wood 59.7 x 49.5 cm Accepted by HM Government in lieu of tax and allocated to the Tate in 1999. aestheticsDante Gabriel RossettiJohn Everett MillaisMarianapaintingpre-RaphaelitePre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodTateTate Britain
Hayek, Hebb, and Heisenberg: Toward an Approach to Brain Functioning
Here’s the second of the extracts from a bona fide neuroscientist (and friend of Fuster). Gerald Edelman of course is also someone who recognized Hayek’s genius in this area. . . . the mind must remain forever in a realm of its own which we can now only directly experience it, but which we shall…
Why Jazz Happened
Review from Reason As I later became interested in political theory, the relationship between the cultural individualism of jazz and the political individualism of libertarianism seemed so natural to me that, with all the innocence of youth, I frequently expressed surprise upon discovering that few of my libertarian friends shared my interest in this form…
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