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WWOZ’s 21-hour tribute to Dave Bartholomew
Listen here. Dave Bartholomewmusicnew orleansWWOZ
Adam Smith on Sympathy: From Self-Interest to Empathy
Is the assumption of self-interested behavior assumed in economics at odds with altruism and compassion? I believe that this question—which has been formulated in various ways in the literature for the past two centuries—is the thorn that often turns us away from reconciling the Adam Smith of the Wealth of Nations (hereinafter WN) with the…
Post “ Post-Truth”: Are We There Yet?
One of my favorite, most formidable and most intellectually honest philosophers, Susan Haack, has made available this recent paper. (Stay tuned for an upcoming festschrift for Susan marking her 75!). If you find the “activism masquerading as inquiry” sorts tiresome and disingenuous, you should really check out Susan’s less technical stuff. EpistemologyevidencemetaphysicsPeircepost modernismsusan haacktestimonyTruth
Over The Rainbow: Herb Alpert
I’ve always had a soft spot for Herb Alpert’s artistry across styles so I’m looking forward to this. Shame about the naff cover though. funkHerb AlpertJazzmusicpopstrumpet
Yukio Mishima in Ichigaya
Excerpt from Anna Sherman’s The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City in The Paris Review. Anna ShermanJapanphilosophical literaturetimeTokyoYukio Mishima
EPISTEME: Volume 16 – Issue 3
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Economic Reasoning and Interaction in Socially Extended Market Institutions
Newly published as open access in Frontiers in Psychology. At long last Hayek makes an appearance outside of Austrian and behavioral circles though myself and others been banging on about him as a situated theorist for yonks. See Bill Butos’ (ed.) The Social Science of Hayek’s The Sensory Order. economic reasoning is never just an…
On Arriving at a University: Michael Oakeshott
Here is the second piece that Ken Minogue gave me thirty or so years ago. This time it’s a piece by Oakeshott himself. Pardon the markings . . . a clean version can be found in What Is History? And Other Essays. Not that it matters much, but the date for the published version is question-marked…
Mott the Hoople ’74
Catch ’em if you can. One of Britain’s most beloved bands. Boston Globe review. all the young dudesDavid Bowieian huntermott the hooplerock ‘n roll
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