Lou Rawls really is a “Jesus of Cool” — I’m puzzled as to why so many people (Rawls included) have thought that Sinatra was a great singing talent (a sacrilegious view I realize) — Rawls has THE style and voice, a fantastic baritone! To Sinatra’s credit he admitted as much: Thus, talent and dedication, rather than marketing…
This from Slate — now here are a couple of premises for a counter-factual story: If nothing else, Macmillan says, “Phineas’s story is worth remembering because it illustrates how easily a small stock of facts can be transformed into popular and scientific myth.” Indeed, the myth-making continues today. “Several people have approached me with a…
Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research — penultimate version here. Cognitioncognitive abilityCognitive neurosciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionEpistemologyExtended cognitionExtended MindExternalismJ. Adam CarterJesper KallestrupKnowledgeMemoryPhilosophy of mindpropositional memory
Fascinating and amusing discussion. Good to see the likes of Joseph Margolis and Richard Bernstein despite my substantive disagreement with them on the relativism front. Charles Sanders PeirceJohn DeweyJoseph MargolispragmatismRichard BernsteinRichard RortyWilliam James
Here is a recent paper co-authored by a top-notch Kantian scholar (and much more besides), a man with two PhDs (earned, not honorary); one in applied mathematics and the other in philosophy (and no, not philosophy of mathematics or science), a man who has transcended the often trivial aspects of academic analytical philosophy and the…
Here’s a little gem of a book perhaps best conceived of as dotting the “i”s and crossing the “t”s (so to speak) of an already very well documented life. I don’t recommend that you go to this until you’ve read the two very different biographies — Tolson and Samway — since Walker Percy Remembered is of…
A terrific highly thoughtful review of Napoleon in America by the renaissance man that is Troy Camplin. Be sure to check out Troy’s eclectic blog and his book Diaphysics. Many will know that I’m a great fan of Troy’s work — he did a lovely chapter for me entitled “Getting to the Hayekian Network“. complexitydiaphysicsemergent orderHayekhistorical fictionNapoleonnapoleon in americashannon selinSpontaneous ordertexasTROY CAMPLIN
A lukewarm review of Dr. John’s latest. Others think differently — here, here and here. Having seen the good doc’s lackluster performance of a few years ago, my hopes aren’t high — admittedly 60% of the audience were there for the support act that blew him away — The Blind Boys of Alabama (featured on this album).…
Here’s a new paper by Luke O’Sullivan: No one has ever really studied Michael Oakeshott’s relationship to the left. After all, since Oakeshott is generally classified as a conservative political thinker, there is presumably little to study. Yet on a second glance there is more to the matter. His contemporaries certainly found Oakeshott hard to…
“Look, there’s a sailor drifting along Chartres Street. He looks rather lonely.” The young man glanced down to the Chartres end of the Alley. “Oh him,” he said. “That’s only Timmy.” “Timmy?” Ignatius asked angrily. “Do you know him?” “Of course,” the young man said in a voice heavy with boredom. “He’s one of my…
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