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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
I’m in accord with these exceedingly warm reviews. This record was produced by Leo Sacks, the man behind the documentary of another N.O. character Raymond Myles, about whom I’ll write about sometime in the near future. Wall Street Journal PopDose OffBeat PopShifter SoulTracks Glen David AndrewsgospelJazzLeo Sacksmusicnew orleansRaymond Mylessecond lineTreme
Peter Lawler at the Online Library of Law & Liberty A.C. LeeAtticus FinchEpictetusHarper LeeMarcus Aureliuspeter lawlerWalker PercyWilliam Alexander Percy
Listening to 5 classic CDs: a bargain at under $20. Leave it to the Brits to properly assess this collection. “The message was and still is in the man’s music” — indeed, and now more so than ever as I have been banging on for some time. Curtis Mayfieldfunkgospelmusicsoul
Coming soon featuring the very excellent Shaun Gallagher. Shaun is contributing to our Philosophical Approaches to Social Neuroscience issue. aweCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionneurophenomenologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindShaun Gallaghersituated cognitionspacewonder
This in The Guardian. (I once had coffee with Elias Canetti at the Coffee Cup in Hampstead). Elias CanettiFranz KafkaMax BrodMetamorphosisphilosophical literature
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