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Williams: Hume on Religion
The vulgar perhaps need a religion: if so, polytheism may well be better, as doing less harm. The sophisticated may well do without one: the trouble is that the religion they may be tempted to embrace may be even worse than the primitive one. Here also, and in some ways parallel, is a distinction that…
Form and Function in Human Song
Here’s a recent open access paper in Current Biology along with a journalistic write-up in The Harvard Gazette. The present research provides evidence for the existence of recurrent, perceptible features of three domains of vocal music across 86 human societies and for the striking consistency of form-function percepts across listeners from around the globe—listeners who presumably…
Philo of Alexandria: Where’s David Runia?
It is quite astonishing that this encyclopedia entry makes no mention whatsoever of the doyen of recent Philonic studies — David Runia. This surely cannot qualify as mere oversight: it is akin to an ostensibly reliable overview of recent Hellenistic scholarship without ever citing A. A. Long. Anyway, to get a sense of just how central Runia…
“Mort” Walker
Thanks Mort for the charming confederacy comprising Beetle Bailey, Sarge and Otto. Bande dessinéebeetle baileycartoonshumourmort walker
Dan Zahavi on Husserl’s legacy
Richard Marshall chats with Dan in 3:AM Magazine. Very briefly put, I think phenomenologists reject various forms of reductionism, objectivism, and scientism. They insist on foregrounding the experiential perspective, and are more interested in descriptive adequacy than in explanatory mechanisms. Central to their efforts is an attempt to characterize and understand the pre-scientific lifeworld, which…
Marcus Miller & Wah Wah Watson do Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
Funkatastic! — all of the band members — who better than Wah Wah to revisit this acid funk classic? acid funkfunkguitarmarcus millermusictemptationswah wah watson
Walker Percy in the Ruins: A Conversation with Brian Smith
Having just finished Brian’s book Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (which I’ll discuss at length in a forthcoming review essay), I was very pleased to come across Brian’s lovely podcast discussion with Richard Reinsch at the Law & Liberty blog. Brian’s exposition of Percy is a paragon of clarity and thus makes for a most reliable overview. (His…
Walker Percy Wednesday 169
THE MYSTERY OF LANGUAGE LANGUAGE IS an extremely mysterious phenomenon. By mysterious I do not mean that the events which take place in the brain during an exchange of language are complex and little understood-although this is true too. I mean, rather, that language, which at first sight appears to be the most familiar sort…
Jazz Fest lineup announced
Details here with special guest, “The Last Man Standing”, of course The Killer — oooo weee! Jazzjazz FestJerry Lee Lewismusicnew orleans
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