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Book of Extremes: Why the 21st Century Isn’t Like the 20th Century
Check out this just released book by a collaborator, the most excellent Ted Lewis. Life in the 21st century is a long-tailed random walk — Levy walks — through extreme events of unprecedented impact. It is an exciting time to be alive. chaos theorycomplexityLevy walksNetwork Sciencenetwork theoryNonlinear DynamicsTed Lewis
The Topography of Tears
Rose-Lynn Fisher’s fascinating photographic project. Like Rose-Lynn I am curious to know what the scientific take on this would be and whether the chemical compounds do actually systematically correspond with Rose-Lynn’s labeling. Artmicroscopephotographyrose-lynn fishertears
Walker Percy, Steve Jobs and Walter Isaacson
A nice little piece from Marsha Mercer. appleMARSHA MERCERsteve jobsWalker PercyWalter Isaacson
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 60
Lana Lee was on a barstool, her legs crossed in tan suede trousers, her muscular buttocks pinning the stool to the floor and commanding it to support her in perfectly vertical form. When she moved slightly, the great muscles of her nether cheeks rippled to life to prevent the stool from leaning and tottering even…
Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopaedia of Behavioral Economics
Coming soon. amos tveskyBehavioral economicsbrain imagingcomplexityDaniel KahnemanDecision makingFriedrich HayekHerbert SimonmdiMichael Oakeshottmorris altmanneuroplasticityReal World Decision Making: An Encyclopaedia of Behavioral Economicssituated cognitionSpontaneous orderthe pretense of knowledge
A New Look at Michael Oakeshott
Lee Auspitz looks at the recent spate of Oakeshottiana in the Claremont Review of Books Spring 2014, Vol. XIV, No. 2: 54-59. a companion to michael oakeshottefraim podoksikhistory of political thoughtlee auspitzPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of historyphilosophy of lawphilosophy of social sciencePolitical philosophy
Sleep’s borderlands
Anthropologist Tanya Marie Luhrmann in the NYT. anthropologydreamsGodReligionsleepT. M. Luhrmann
David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926 – 13 May 2014)
H/T to Andrew Irvine. DMA’s wiki entry. david armstrongExternalismfunctionalismMaterialismmetaphyicsneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
The Philosophy of Creativity
Coming soon aestheticsCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessElliot Samuel Paulphilosophical psychologyphilosophy of creativityPhilosophy of mindScott Barry Kaufman
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