Here are some extracts by the man who first set me on the road to Oakeshott some twenty years ago – Geoff Thomas. Geoff has a philosophy of history book coming out soon – and I can tell you it’s a cracker. What Oakeshott said about history—his canonical philosophical view about the nature of historical inquiry—can…
Two of the highlights: Satisfaction left off because of stringent O2 time constraints. Telegraph Review Right about now the Stones’ 50th anniversary shows in London should kick off. My man on the inside tells me that the set list so far: Set list so far : 1-Wanna be your man 2-Get of off my cloud…
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A band as meticulous as Steely Dan – 36 years on plugging a boxed set. 10ccEric StewartGraham GouldmanKevin GodleyLol CrememusicPop musicsteely dan
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Brian Ferry has a new album out. Ferry is of course not new to exploring his parents’ and grandparents’ music: he has dabbling quite convincingly long before it became a fashionable late-career move by some (i.e. Rod Stewart). Ferry, I think, did a damn fine job of playing the crooner on his first two solo…
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The LAF is putting on two lectures that would have great appeal to me: One of my favourite philosophers, Colin McGinn, on Hand, Mind and Language: In what ways might the human hand have contributed to the evolution of the human mind and human language? To what extent do we have a “manual mind”? Could spoken…
These excerpts from Ken McIntyre’s essay Philosophy and its moods: Oakeshott’s insistence on the dispositional skepticism of philosophical activity leads to his rejection of both the importance of authority in philosophy and the relevance of philosophy to practical life. He writes that philosophy “recognizes neither ‘authorities’ nor ‘established doctrines,’” because such institutions present themselves as conclusions…
Though there is much talk about this study, check out this study that goes back a few years: Our results strongly implicate a distinctive pattern of changes in prefrontal cortical activity that underlies the process of spontaneous musical composition. Our data indicate that spontaneous improvisation, independent of the degree of musical complexity, is characterized by widespread deactivation…
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