Morricone and Tarantino
Prima facie, a fantastic collaboration. Ennio MorriconemusicQuentin TarantinosoundtrackThe Hateful Eight
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Satchmo SummerFest
This begins today. Be sure to check out Satchmo: His Life in New Orleans a collaboration between the Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Louisiana State Museum that was co-curated by the amazing Ricky Riccardi and his Archives Assistant, Brynn White. JazzLouis Armstrongmusicnew orleansRicky RiccardiSatchmo Summerfest
The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences
Any book endorsed by Christian List must be taken notice of, the introductory chapter available here along with the OUP webpage. Contrary to the extracts below I think we actually have a very good theory as to how individuals (ants) aggregate — it’s called STIGMERGY. In a forthcoming special issue of Cognitive Systems Research we will be presenting…
Walker Percy Wednesday 45
Suicide considered as consequence of the spirit of abstraction and of transcendence; lewdness as sole portal of reentry into world demoted to immanence; reentry into immanence via orgasm; but post-orgasmic transcendence 7 devils worse than first. Man who falls victim to transcendence as the spirit of abstraction, i.e., elevates self to posture over and against…
Engineering Human Stigmergy
A recent paper freely available in IJCCC. antscoordination problemdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgehuman-human stigmergySpontaneous orderstigmergicstigmergic cognitionstigmergic epistemologyStigmergySwarm behavior
Susan Haack — Passionate Moderate
Susan Haack is one of my absolutely favourite living (and still very active) philosophers. The appellation Passionate Moderate had such deep resonance from the moment I read her eponymously titled book. (This is a great book to read if you are coming to formal philosophy for the first time: Susan writes without ever being “jargony” or condescending…
David Madden and Walker Percy
From Black Mountain News In 1968, Madden began 24 years of teaching at Louisiana State University. Living near him in Covington for a while was the writer Walker Percy, author of “Love in the Ruins” and other novels. “He got on the faculty for just a quarter. I think his daughter was going to LSU,” Madden…
Alfred North Whitehead
I notice that my chum Andrew Irvine has given his ANW entry on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy a revamp. Though probably best known (at least to the man on the Clapham omnibus) for the quote that “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”…
Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon
Foreword by Katherine Simon Frank 1. Herbert Simon – a Hedgehog and a Fox by Roger Frantz and Leslie Marsh Part I – Minds 2. Embodied Functionalism and Inner Complexity: Simon’s 21st-Century Mind by Robert Rupert 3. Towards a Rational Theory of Heuristics by Gerd Gigerenzer 4. From The Sciences of the Artificial to Cognitive History…
Walker Percy Wednesday – 44
Here he used to walk with his father and speak of the galaxies and of the expanding universe and take pleasure in the insignificance of man in the great lonely universe. His father would recite “Dover Beach,” setting his jaw askew and wagging’ his head like F.D.R.: for the world which seems To lie before…
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