Douglass C. North (1920-2015)
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Cynthia, Co-Founder of Sly and the Family Stone, Dies
This in The Root funkgospelmusicsly and the family stonesoultrumpet
Does functionalism entail extended mind?
Newly published EM paper Chinese RoomExtended MindfunctionalismKengo MiyazonometaphyicsPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
The epistemic value of speculative fiction
Interesting paper. Archangel of Fire – Uriel – by Simon Berger Counterfactual historyEpistemologyphilosophical literaturesituated cognitionsocial epistemologyspeculative fictionStorytellingthought experiments
Whiskey River
This article caused quite a stir recently. David Driscoll issues an interesting response. And the word from Canada . . . bourbondavid driscolljim murrayqualiasingle maltwhiskeyWhisky
Discussion of Confederacy Staging
A sensible discussion by Jeffrey Hatcher. Click image for MP3 discussion (H/T Robert Bugg) a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
Books are not life, only its ashes
Here is an interview I came across with Yourcenar. As one would expect she takes no prisoners and clearly would rub up activists the wrong way — hence they systematically avoid her, assuming they’d even read top-notch stuff like “Hadrian”. I guess she would be unknown to “creative writing” courses constituted as they seem to be by…
Stars Send off Allen Toussaint with his Own Tunes
Only in N.O. — click above image for 15 minute video footage of second line in spite what Keith reports AT wanted below. In any event, a second line was what made me fall in love with N.O. As I anticipated, the very excellent Keith Spera on Allen Toussaint’s send off with a whose who in attendance :…
Allen Toussaint’s Send Off
OffBeat Magazine’s coverage. Looking forward though to Keith Spera’s report. Allen ToussaintKeith Speranew orleans
Staged Confederacy of Dunces Reviews
I’m typically very sceptical about a great piece of art being adapted for another modality and though the reviewers don’t fully grasp CoD, I think this shows. Burma cynical? Only the shallowest of readings of the book would suggest that but if he comes over as such in the play, then we have a disjuncture. The…
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