This event was brought to my attention by Martin Rosenberg, one of conference speakers and a contributor to the forthcoming themed C+T issue on jazz. Here is the conference website. JazzJazz Improvisationmusicphilosophy of musicSpontaneous order
The birthday of one of New Orleans’ great characters. Read all about Ernie here. Antoinette also led a tongue-in-cheek campaign for K-Doe’s election for mayor of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans in 2006, five years after his death. She is quoted as saying, “He’s the only one qualified—that’s my opinion.” Ben SandmelErnie K-Doemother-in-law loungenew orleanssoul music
A giant in social choice theory — the true heir to Condorcet. The NYT obituary. collective intentionalityCondorcetEconomicskenneth arrowsocial choice theorytransitivityvoting paradoxes
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second’s glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century…
Marcin Miłkowski has made available a full draft of his chapter from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Bounded RationalitycomplexityExtended MindHerbert SimonMarcin Miłkowskisituated cognition
Meet Santiago Ramón y Cajal, an artist, photographer, doctor, bodybuilder, scientist, chess player and publisher. He was also the father of modern neuroscience. Hunched Over a Microscope, He Sketched the Secrets of How the Brain Works. It was Joaquin Fuster who first brought Santiago Ramón y Cajal to my attention. Joaquin FusterneurosciencePhilosophy of mindSantiago Ramón y Cajal
Galen Strawson revisits Frank Jackson’s thought experiment in a final draft made available here. For those not familiar with this thought experiment, Galen sets it up quickly and clearly. If this line of thought is right, the mistake on both sides is—to repeat—to confuse materialism or physicalism with physics-alism. The mistake is a mistake whether…
I’d be deeply envious of you were you able to catch a rare appearance by (in my book at least) the legendary Shuggie Otis (see The Mystery of Shuggie Otis and write-ups in The Guardian and Popmatters). Before you meet Otis, you encounter the myth: the vanished genius worshipped by crate-digger cultists and waylaid by the industry—a psychedelic phantom sharing a bloodline…
Dennett plugging his latest From Bacteria to Bach and Back. I’m with Dennett on this deeper analysis of where we are at just now and have been very concerned about this since Sokal. It was one of the primary motivations for my setting up EPISTEME. The problem, going back at least 30 years, has been that…
Chicago University Press have now listed that the reissue will only become available in June. bruce caldwellFriedrich Hayekneurosciencephilosophical psychologythe sensory orderviktor vanberg
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