Kitcher on Nagel
Things Fall Apart (an aside: the man best known for this phrase). CognitionCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnessethicsmetaphysicsNatural selectionPhilip KitcherPhilosophy of mindPhilosophy of scienceReligionthomas nagelvalue
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A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 27
Social note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, that shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.…
Review of Franco-Marsh Companion
Review essay of A Companion to Michael Oakeshott CONVERSATIONS WITH MICHAEL OAKESHOTT – AN INTERLUDE TO OAKESHOTT SCHOLARSHIP by Suvi Soininen Redescriptions: yearbook of political thought, conceptual history and feminist theory. 2012/2013, vol. 16, pp. 172-187 (in downloadable pdf) a companion to michael oakeshottaestheticsBritish IdealismConservatismConversationEpistemologyexperience and its modesHayekhistory of political thoughtLeslie MarshLiberalismMichael Oakeshotton human conductPaul Francophilosophical jurisprudencePhilosophy of…
Martha Argerich & Charles Dutoit
A great team reunited: if Martha doesn’t cancel . . . Charles DutoitClassical musicMartha ArgerichWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rompin’ Boogie Woogie Classics
A must have for any discriminating record collection. Interesting to note that the label is UK-based but then we Brits have always had a soft spot for boogie-woogie, one of the finest practictioners along with Jools Holland was of course the “sixth” Stone – Ian “Stu” Stewart, immortalized by Led Zep as “Boogie with Stu” on…
EPISTEME 10:3
See here. GETTIERIZED KNOBE EFFECTS James R. Beebe and Joseph Shea A RELIABILISM BUILT ON COGNITIVE CONVERGENCE: AN EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED SOLUTION TO THE GENERALITY PROBLEM Martin L. Jönsson A NEW PROSPECT FOR EPISTEMIC AGGREGATION Daniel Berntson and Yoaav Isaacs PHOTOGRAPHICALLY BASED KNOWLEDGE Dan Cavedon-Taylor EXPLANATIONIST EVIDENTIALISM Kevin McCain IS FOUNDATIONAL A PRIORI JUSTIFICATION INDISPENSABLE? Ted Poston…
New Trombone Shorty album
Listen to the album here. bluesfunkJazzmusicnew orleansTrombone Shorty
Ronald Coase (1910-2013)
Coarse’s Nobel biography EconomicsLibertarianismorganizational economicsRonald Coasetransaction costs
Why Writers Drink
Three very warm reviews of Olivia Laing’s The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink. Olivia Laing’s . . . book takes its title from a line in Tennessee Williams’s play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It’s an apt phrase for a book about writers and alcoholism, with its combined dose of the sublime…
Fear, flying and freedom
The one and only Jeb Corliss now fully recovered. base jumpingflyingjeb corlissparachutingskydivingwing suit
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