Les Paul stories
Some nice recollections of the great technological innovator. BeatlesJazzKeith RichardsLes Paulmusicrock and roll
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Understanding the Internalism-Externalism Debate: What is the Boundary of the Thinker?
Here is a forthcoming paper from the VERY excellent Brie Gertler. Since the work of Burge, Davidson, Kripke, and Putnam in the 1970’s, philosophers of language and mind have engaged in extensive debate over the following question: Do mental content properties—such as thinking that water quenches thirst—supervene on properties intrinsic to the thinker? To answer affirmatively…
Marshall Baron
I want to bring your attention to someone I knew some 35 years ago – Marshall Baron. I never forgot Marshall: thanks to his sister Merle, she has done a terrific service to the world by bringing Marshall’s work to a wider audience via the web. Moreover, for us who were so privileged to have…
New Orleans: Mon Amour
Love NOLA: Ten things you learn from living in New Orleans By Brett Will Taylor Good grief. Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of my move from Boston to New Orleans. Has it really been two years? Has it only been two years? Forty-eight months in and it’s hard to remember ever living anywhere else. This…
Oakeshott on Civil Association
A trailer from Noel O’Sullivan‘s essay. The distinctive achievement of Western political thought since the seventeenth century is the ideal of the limited state. Despite extensive theorizing about this ideal, however, there has always been profound disagreement about its precise nature and implications. The full extent of this disagreement has been especially evident during the…
Shooting Bourdain
From Portland to NOLA: two of my favourite places. A Week In The Life Of Zach Zamboni, Anthony Bourdain’s Cinematographer. Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain: No Reservationsdooky chasefoodnew orleansZach Zamboni
A Brief History of Stigmergy
Someone has posted Guy Theraulaz’ and Eric Bonabeau’s classic paper from Artificial Life. Artificial intelligenceArtificial LifeBiologyCollective intelligencecollective intentionalitycomplexityEusocialityExternalismInsectPierre-Paul GrasséSpontaneous orderstigmergicStigmergy
The boredom of boozeless business
This piece from The Economist – cheers! Another recent paper from the journal Consciousness and Cognition by psychologists at the University of Illinois confirms what many have long suspected: a couple of drinks makes workers more creative. Tipsy employees, they say, find it hard to focus on a task, but this makes them more likely to…
Headquarters
To mark the 5oth anniversary of Preservation Hall. We are all in profoundly debted to Allan and Sandra Jaffe. Allan JaffeJazzmusicnew orleanspreservation hallPreservation Hall Jazz BandSandra Jaffe
The Oxford Handbook of the Self
Here is another review from NDPR on Shaun Gallagher’s immense collection that I mentioned a few months back. I have delved into this and have found some very good stuff that I’m currently reading. NDPRoxford handbook of the selfpersonal identityphilosophy of social scienceShaun Gallaghersituated cognitionsocial epistemologysocial identity
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