Zbigniew Janowski interviews Nick about his latest book (and chats about much more besides. Friedrich HayekJohn Stuart MillLiberalismMichael OakeshottNicholas Capaldirule of lawZbigniew Janowski
And left alone (this, too, was strange) I didn’t think about my father’s health, but instead, moved and – I may say – filled with proper filial respect, I regretted that for such a mind, aspiring to lofty goals, a finer education had not been possible. Today, as I write, approaching the age reached by…
My two cents worth to Susan’s festschrift. classical liberalismEPISTEMEEpistemologyPeirceScientismSokal Hoaxsusan haacktestimony
FOR SOME TIME NOW the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as…
“I also told the students that, for the sake of humanity’s future, I hoped that they were all sterile. I could never have possibly read over the illiteracies and misconceptions burbling from the dark minds of these students. It will be the same wherever I work.” 30% discount code available here a confederacy of duncesJohn…
Peter Green died today. See this article on Green in Guitar World. Peter Green is, arguably, the most underrated guitarist of the British mid-’60s blues boom, consistently relegated to a position somewhere below the holy triumvirate of Clapton, Beck and Page. fleetwood macguitarPeter greenrhythm and blues
Festschrift for Susan Haack on the occasion of her 75th birthday. Charles Sanders PeirceEpistemologyfeminismphilosophical logicpolitical correctnesspragmatismsusan haacktestimony
A regular young Rupert Brooke was I, —full of expectancy. Oh the crap that lies lurking in the English soul. Somewhere it, the English soul, received an injection of romanticism which nearly killed it. That’s what killed my father, English romanticism, that and 1930 science. A line for my notebook: Explore connection between romanticism and…
” . . . Some poor white from Mississippi told the dean that I was a propagandist for the Pope, which was patently untrue. I do not support the current Pope. He does not at all fit my conception of a good, authoritarian Pope. Actually, I am quite opposed to the relativism of modern Catholicism…
This recent documentary is freely available here. consciousnessdavid bohmPhilosophy of mindQuantum mechanicsRoger Penrose
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