The very excellent Galen Strawson’s Isaiah Berlin Lecture from earlier this year. Highly unusual indeed to spot a footnote to Hayek’s TSO — so that’s rather good news. Also in anticipation of a review I’ve commissioned for Shaun Gallagher’s recently published Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind, Shaun has made available the book’s intro: see here. behaviourismconsciousnessenactivismFriedrich HayekGalen StrawsonPhilip…
The always interesting and readable Andy Clark at The Neuroethics Blog. Andy ClarkEmbodied cognitive scienceethicsExternalismNeural Networksphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindpredictive brainsurfing uncertainty
Looking forward to Tamler Sommers’ latest endorsed by no less than Paul Bloom. ethicspaul bloomphilosophy of lawPolitical philosophytamler sommersvery bad wizards
Recent paper by Andrew Norris in Political Theory. andrew norrisindividualityMichael OakeshottPolitical philosophy
THE MAN ON THE TRAIN THERE is no such thing, strictly speaking, as a literature of alienation. In the re-presenting of alienation the category is reversed and becomes something entirely different. There is a great deal of difference between an alienated commuter riding a train and this same commuter reading a book about an alienated…
Refreshingly on the right track and by a prominent millennial showing up the mal-educated monomaniacal authoritarian tendencies of the IYIs of his age group. Anyway see Ryan Holiday in The Observer. It is not stealing or looting to take things that inspire you in one culture and adapt and change them to further your own expression. It’s…
A few weeks back I made the error of purchasing a second bottle of Woodford Reserve Double Oaked (it was erroneous because I must not quite have assimilated the full depth of my disappointment first time round). A minority view, I know, but I just found the extra oaking a case of “over-egging the pud”…
Well of course the reference is to Mishima. Lee Jay Walker grasps the significance of Mishima. [T]he genius of Yukio Mishima is that his books – and thinking – fused the complexities facing individuals in this new world of opportunity – and in the new world of forgetting the past that irked this amazing writer. A…
Worth checking out this recently published book. As has been variously argued, jazz as a spontaneous order makes a nonsense of the vulgar rationalisms peddled by the “cultural appropriation” fundamentalists. Conversationjack sullivanJazzmusicnew orleansregressive leftSpontaneous order
Fifty years ago to the day Christiaan Barnard led the first successful(ish) heart transplant operation. I still think of this amazing achievement, here written up in the South African Medical Journal: the recipient Louis Washkansky; the donor Denise Darvall. And for those who have no idea who CB was, here are two obituaries: Telegraph and NYT. Christiaan BarnardDenise DarvallGroote Schuur Hospitalheart transplantLouis WashkanskyMedicinesciencesurgery
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