Is it part of the police department to harass me when this is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world? . . . This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians, all of whom are only too well protected by…
This from The Economist. BrainCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityHuman brainHuman Genome Projectmapping the brainPhilosophy of mind
Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centenary of Herbert Simon’s Birth Edited by Roger Frantz (San Diego State University) and Leslie Marsh (University of British Columbia) Call for Papers Herbert Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was a polymath of the highest order, making significant contributions to sociology, political science, behavioral economics, epistemology, cognitive…
Now this would be a ticket to pay way over the odds for – assuming of course Martha shows since she is inclined to not appear. Worth a gamble to see this great performer. Martha Argerichmusicpiano
This paper proposes a model and theory of leadership emergence whereby (1) small social groups are modeled as small world networks and a betweeness metric is shown to be a property of networks with strong leadership, and (2) a theory of group formation based on stigmergy explains how such networks evolve and form. Specifically, dominant…
The last essay in the collection. To write about law in relationship to Michael Oakeshott’s ideas generally, or his thoughts on politics in particular, presents a complicated task, not because law is an obscure concept in Oakeshott and not because it is a topic about which he has written little. In fact, Oakeshott wrote about…
This programme features Toole’s biographer, the very excellent Cory MacLauchlin. Confederacy of DuncesCory MacLauchlinIgnatius J ReillyJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleans
A nice and recent piece on the Rolfe-Symons entanglement, a follow up to the last post. Symons Said; On the trail of a strange, elusive life in literature. Michael Dirda, The Weekly Standard, Vol. 18 No. 14 My quest for Symons A.J.A. Symons, that is began when, many years ago, I first read that strange novel Hadrian…
Check out the Catalan cover to “Dunces” (H/T to Cory MacLauchlin) The outfit was acceptable by any theological and geometrical standards, however abstruse, and suggested a rich inner life (p. 2). a confederacy of duncesCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleans
Even though this special issue has been available for a while, since it is the March issue, it’s an opportune time to give it another plug. I’ll run some extracts from each paper over the coming weeks. complexityExtended MindExternalismhuman stigmergysituated cognitionsocial epistemologystigmergic cognitionStigmergy
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