Gary Becker
Greg Mankiw, the WP, TIME, UChicago and WSJ report the passing of Gary Becker. Here is his Nobel page and his Wiki page. I had tried to make contact with him some two years ago to no avail. discriminationEconomicsGary BeckerSociology
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Varieties of extended emotions
The very excellent Joel Krueger has a new paper. AffectCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionEmotionsExtended Mindjoel kruegerJoint listeningmusicphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindSelf-regulation
EPISTEME 11:2
Latest issue EPISTEMEsocial epistemology
Best Soul Food
The List Willie Mae’s Scotch House and Dooky Chase’s feature. I’ve been lucky to have eaten at Sylvia’s Restaurant, Gladys Knight’s Chicken & Waffles and Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles. Dooky Chase’sfoodnew orleanssoul foodWillie Mae’s Scotch House
Certified
Percy referenced in Why It Feels Good When Your City Hits the Big Screen Walker Percy may be right. The attraction towards certification is often a function of a deficiency in ourselves. We feel unvalidated and we appropriate the decision of a location scout in order to fill that void. Moviegoerphilosophical literatureWalker Percy
Robert Plant @ Jazz Fest
As usual an excellent report by Keith Spera. He prefers to chart his own course down roads less traveled, specifically the back-country trails that lead to forgotten corners of Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, and ramshackle bars in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood. Thus, on Saturday, he and the Space Shifters exhumed a meditation by high-lonesome Kentucky…
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 58
“It seems to me that you would be generous enough to give some sort of discount to your own employees,” Ignatius said importantly after an audit of the day’s receipts showed that, upon subtracting the cost of the hot dogs he had eaten, his take-home pay for the day was exactly a dollar and twenty-five…
Catholicism and literature
As a Catholic, I recognize that life is a story of continuous revision, of failure and unexpected grace, and of dogged hope. I am comfortable with the white space of ambiguity and mystery. I have faith, not certainty . . . Nick Ripatrazone (H/T to The Dish’s Matt Sitman). CatholicismNick Ripatrazonephilosophical literature
Huey “Piano” Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues
New book from LSU Press. Here is an article in Nola.com Allen ToussaintDr. JohnErnie K-DoeFats DominoHuey “Piano” SmithJohn Wirtlevon helmnew orleansRobbie RobertsonRobert Plant
How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
Here’s a just published review in JMB, endorsed by some heavy hitters such as Edwin Hutchins and Kevin Warwick. How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement represents a synthesis of the positions that the author, Lambros Malafouris, has developed over the course of his career, supplemented by the addition of new explanatory examples and unpublished…
