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Joan McCord
Born on this day. NYT obituary — LA Times. criminologyjoan mccordSocial scienceSociology
Hobby Horses
John Gray discusses the reissue of A Guide to the Classics or How to Pick the Derby Winner in the Literary Review. For both authors, the point of betting on the horses was not so much profiting from the wager as the satisfaction that came from picking the winner. A Guide to the ClassicsGuy Griffithjohn grayMichael…
Walker Percy Wednesday 147
Carl Sagan is right in ridiculing the absurd pseudosciences now so popular. He is admirable in his defense of science as a reliable and self-correcting method of attaining truth. Yet the fact is that nowadays there is no piece of nonsense that will not be believed by some and no guru or radio preacher, however…
A Companion to Michael Oakeshott
aestheticsBritish Idealismhistory of political thoughtMichael Oakeshottphilosophical jurisprudencePhilosophyPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of historyPhilosophy of mindPolitical philosophyrationalismReligion & SpiritualityThomas Hobbes
Stichelton
This is a cheese I long to try. For the back story see here, here, and here. cheesegastronomyStichelton
The State of German Philosophy
This very unusual piece on the state of German philosophy in the thoughtful Foreign Policy, still one of the better mags given how noticeably downhill The Economist and The Atlantic have gone. On the whole there is nothing wrong with popular philosophy so long as it is not peddling yet more reheated neo-Marxist Frankfurt School postmodern shite…
D.L. Menard
It has been reported that D.L. Menard has died. cajun musicD.L. Menardhank williamsroots music
Why Philosophers Are Obsessed With Brains in Jars
An old philosophical chestnut discussed in The Atlantic. Words and concepts used by a brain in a vat can’t be meaningfully applied to real objects outside of the brain’s experience, because the ability to have causal interaction with the specific things that words name is inherently how such words acquire meaning, Putnam argued. Artificial intelligenceCognitive…
Walker Percy Wednesday 146
Question: Why does it make scientists uneasy that it appears to be the case that Homo sapiens, a conscious languaged creature, appeared suddenly and lately—when scientists profess to be interested in what is the case, that is, the evidence? (a) Because scientists are understandably repelled by the theory of the special creation of man by…
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