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Walker Percy Weekend ’17
Still on a Percy theme, the Walker Percy Weekend organizers have announced that tickets go on sale today. existentialismphilosophical literaturePhilosophyWalker PercyWalker Percy Weekend
Walker Percy Wednesday 121
I experience the sensation that the world really ended in 1916 and that we’ve been living in a dream ever since. These good fellows have spent their entire lives working, raising families, fighting Nazis, worrying about Communism, yet they’ve really been zapped by something else. We haven’t been zapped by the Nazis and the Communists.…
Conservatism: Analytically Reconsidered
The new issue of The Monist: “This special issue is motivated by the observation that conservatism plays a marginal role in contemporary philosophy even though it appears to be of considerable importance in moral, social, and political reality. One reason for this neglect is that defenders of conservatism have often refrained from articulating their arguments…
Superintelligence: Science or Fiction?
Artificial intelligenceBart SelmanCognitive scienceDavid ChalmersDemis HassabisElon MuskJaan TallinnneuroscienceNick BostromRay Kurzweilsam harrisStuart Russell
Deirdre McCloskey on Dave Rubin
I had the honour and pleasure to spend the weekend at an intimate conference this past weekend with the delightful, funny, kind, supportive and of course brilliant Deirdre McCloskey. A true renaissance woman unlike the one-dimensional regressive hacks that populate most academia these days. Deirdre McCloskeyLiberalismregressive left
The Enactive Approach
Notice too that although the choice of processes under study is more or less arbitrary and subject to the observer’s history, goals, tools, and methods, the topological property unraveled isn’t arbitrary. — The Brains Blog Cognitive scienceenactivismEvan ThompsonExtended MindFrancisco Varelamarvin minskymerleau-pontyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Criticism of Islam Angers Western Regressives
Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Criticism of Islam Angers Western Liberals Regressives. (Strike though added — they are certainly not liberals but authoritarians, with much in common with their bête noire — i.e. Fascists). islamLiberalismregressive left
Cosmos + Taxis 4 (1)
Coming soon Austrian Economicscosmos & taxisdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeLiberalismSpontaneous order
Walker Percy Wednesday 120
“Hear this, Tom. I’ll make it short and sweet. We’re not talking about some bush-league medical project—fluoridating water to cure tooth decay. We’re not even talking about curing AIDS. We’re not even talking medicine, Tom. We’re talking about the decay of the social fabric. The American social fabric. I’m not telling you anything you don’t…
