Mind and Behavior: 38(2)
Lastest issue now available. Cognitive scienceCosmides and ToobyenactivismErwin SchrödingerGalen Strawsonjournal of mind and behaviorPhilosophy of mindTom Froese
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East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
I’ve been listening to this Steely Dan cover of the Ellington-Miley gem for the first time in over 40 years. It’s amazing how much Pokey sounds like them on this track, even with the domineering psychedelic wah-wah talkbox effect played by Jeff Baxter. duke ellingtonguitarJazzJeff Baxtermusicpokey lafargepretzel logicroots musicsteely danwah-wah
Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
Looking forward to reading Jessica’s new book which arrived today. A great impetus to my long overdue return to thinking about Dostoevsky. Fyodor Dostoevskyjessica hooted wilsonphilosophical literatureWalker Percy
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Having just seen a fully restored version of this film which I previously had last seen on the big screen at a midnight showing on its release in ’76, I was superficially struck by the prescience of the idea of space travel underwritten by private enterprise. Though Walter and Peter in their forthcoming book, Space…
Who Rules in Science?
It’s the IYIs (technically speaking “bureaucrapic fuckwits”) who are deeming what is and what is not bona fide scientific knowledge — the decision handed down is seemingly an instance of an ignoratio elenchi. Some of the toughest-minded criticism of this generalized line of wooly thinking has surprisingly emanated from Canada in the form of James Robert Brown and André…
Paula Wright: Sexy isn’t Sexist
“Sexy isn’t Sexist” is Paula Wright’s Twitter handle. Very chuffed to have the versatile and independent-minded Paula allow us to use one of her compelling photographs as the next C+T cover. As a classical liberal in the tradition of grandees such as Christina Hoff Sommers and Susan Haack, Paula and a new crop of formidable empirically informed and temperamentally based…
Oakeshott on Education
Here is Anthony’s entry on Oakeshott from The Routledge encyclopaedia of educational thinkers — note, MO’s date of death is incorrectly stated. anthony o’hearJoy A. Palmer CooperLiberal educationMichael OakeshottPhilosophy of Education
Arthur “Mr. Okra” Robinson
The Advocate — NOLA.com — 4WWL — Gambit 9th wardboneramamr. okranew orleans
Newly Discovered Draft of Descartes’ Meditations
H/T to Stephen Hicks. Write-up in Research Frontiers. Bernard WilliamsDescartesJeremy HymanMeditations on First Philosophymodern philosophy
Walker Percy Wednesday 172
Peirce believed that there are two kinds of natural phenomena. First there are those events which involve “dyadic relations,” such as obtain in the “physical forces . . . between pairs of particles.” The other kind of event entails “triadic relations”: All dynamical action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place…
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