What Louis Armstrong Really Thinks
This from The New Yorker. JazzLouis Armstrongmusicnew orleansracism
Author: manwithoutqualities
Browse by:
Extended cognition: New philosophical perspectives
Here’s a special issue of Philosophical Psychology that features some top-notch names that includes Ed Hutchins, Rob Wilson and Sven Walter. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial cognition
The Moviegoer – quotes and extracts – 5
He was unaffected by the singularities of time and place. His abode was anywhere. It was all the same to him whether he catheterized a pig at four o’clock in the afternoon in New Orleans or at midnight in Transylvania. . . . Yet I do not envy him. I would not change places with…
The Philosophy of Robert Musil
Here is the long awaited lineup for Bence Nanay’s issue for The Monist (97:1 Jan 2014). Bence Nanay The Dethroning of Ideocracy: Robert Musil as a Philosopher Robert Musil was not a professional philosopher. He was a novelist— and according to the widely accepted canon, his contribution to the twentieth-century novel is only matched by very…
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
Here’s a just published book on Pops. JazzLouis ArmstrongModernismmusicnew orleansThomas Brothers
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 50
Lana started to plan the ensemble with the globe. the chalk, and the book. If the thing had commercial possibilities, is should be done with a certain finesse and quality. She had envisioned several arrangements that would combine grace and obscenity (p. 146). “Hey! I sure they a bird trade. White peoples always got parakeets…
Bacteria strain named after Frank Zappa
This from the NME. Always good to hear that Frank is getting recognition from unlikely quarters on the grounds that he gets no real radio play and that he pissed off the ideologues of both political wings. P. Zappae is not the first time that Zappa has inspired the name of a new discover. The musician has provided inspiration…
The Last Gentleman
Here is one of the more thoughtful, subtle and insightful takes on one of Percy’s masterpieces. existentialismphilosophical literaturethe last gentlemanWalker Percy
A Case for Pessimism about General Theories of Consciousness
This summary from the very excellent The Splintered Mind. BrainCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDaniel DennettDavid ChalmersEric Schwitzgebelphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualia
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 49
“Goofin off? Shit. Goofin off ain cleanin up this mother-fuckin cathouse. They somebody in here sweepin and moppin up all the shit your po, stupor customer drippin on the flo. I feel sorry for them po peoples comin in here thinkin they gonna have theirself some fun, probly gettin knockout drop in they drink, catchin…
manwithoutqualities 