Époisses is so stinky that it is banned on public transportation in France — a country usually tolerant of such aromas. Unbeknownst to me, my hosts in Bourgogne packed some really ripe cartons into my luggage for me to take back to London: it really was quite noticeable in the Tube but of course I played…
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Chose your digital format of “The Case Of Wagner: A Musician’s Problem” made available by Project Gutenberg. Of course, one should also give a close listen to this version of Parsifal from Bayreuth 2016. And yet this other question can certainly not be circumvented: what business had he actually with that manly (alas! so unmanly) “bucolic simplicity,” that…
Surprisingly, only now has an official website for Fats been launched. Let’s hope it actually becomes content rich and not just another naff and crass exercise in merchandizing. The best source for the Fats story remains Rick Coleman’s Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll. boogie boogieFats Dominomusicnew orleansrick coleman
As one would expect, a subtle view of religion that rationalists (typically adhering to one secular religion or another) have a blind spot to. Daniel DennettLudwig WittgensteinNassim Nicholas Talebrationalismreligion and scienceRichard Dawkins
Upriver and into West Feliciana, the first low loess bluffs of St. Francisville, and into the pleasant deciduous hills where Audubon lived with rich English planters, painted the birds, and taught dancing for a living. Out of the hills and back toward the river and Grand Mer, the great widening of the river into a…
Thinking of this great subtle humane thinker — his birth and death dates are close together (December 11, 1901 — December 19, 1990) — whose work stands as one of the greatest challenges to salvation peddlers. For a freebie overview check out Terry Nardin’s SEP entry and two collections — Paul and my Penn State volume and…
The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available. Epistemologysocial epistemology
My chum David Livingstone Smith’s long awaited edited collection of essays by a top-notch lineup is now available. To get a better sense of the scope of the project check out the book’s homepage as well as David’s other writings here. For the past thirty years I been of the view that though Hume did not have…
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