Check out my chum and occasional collaborator’s two-part discussion of Kiyoshi Chiba’s Kants Ontologie der raumzeitlichen Wirklichkeit. Part I Part II anti-realismchris onofKantKiyoshi Chibatranscendental idealism
Born on this day. Little Richardmusicrock ‘n roll
Thelma being . . . Thelma . . . what with the ubiquitous piano. (Also I’ve just noted that the excellent documentary on Toole, a collaboration between Toole biographer Corey MacLauchlin and film-maker Joe Sanford, has been updated — and there is now a transcript which I’d have found handy when writing my forthcoming review of…
An eloquent review of the final season of Treme from the LA Times. the series takes its form from the city’s substance; it does not so much present a point of view as embody a perpetual argument….It is romantic and naturalistic at once, as dreamy and earthy as the place in which it takes place…
This from the NYT (h/t to Shannon Selin). We will see . . . but me thinks the results (as with neuroeconomics) will be over-stated. Still, great marketing ploy for the author and his publisher. Check out The Science of Art and Brain and Art. This is a very good culturally informed and salutary article that one…
We do correspond quite regularly, the usual theme of Myrna’s correspondence tending to urge me to participate in lie-ins and wade-ins and sit-ins and such. Since, however, I do not eat at lunch counters and do not swim, I have ignored her advice. The subsidiary theme in the correspondence is one urging me to come…
This from the latest issue of Neuroethics December 2013, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 593-605. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid Chalmersdistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismNeuroethicsPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
One day late (an oversight). Anyway, here is news of an “autobiography” that has recently been released. jimi hendrixmusic
Michael Jackson (no, not that one!) on, to my mind, the greatest brewery of all — my #1 brew of all-time being the Rochefort 10. My tasting notes made the beers sound like foods, and Father Antoine reminded me that they once were. The Trappists still do not eat meat, but once also ruled out fish…
This from Sean Brock, The Mind of a Chef. catfishfoodnew orleanssean brockThe Mind of a Chef
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