Review of Randy Boyagoda’s latest novel Original Prin in The American Interest. CatholicismFlannery O’Connorgraham greeneJohn Kennedy TooleOriginal PrinPaul Eliephilosophical literatureRandy BoyagodaWalker Percy
Featuring three reviews that I commissioned. biophilosophychessCognitive scienceconsciousnessdavid livingstone smithEmbodied cognitionFernand Gobetjournal of mind and behaviorPhilosophy of mind
Cognitive scienceEmotionJoe RoganJoseph LeDouxneurosciencePhilosophy of mindqualia
Some fuckwit marketing executive/editor must have come up with this lazy and naff title. I can’t imagine Will Birch would have come up with this. The North American cover is better than the UK version. I’m sure there could have been a dozen or more other song titles that would have been more apropos and…
Masterpiece — album version below. acid funkacid soulmotownpapa was a rollin’ stonetemptations
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Listen here. Dave Bartholomewmusicnew orleansWWOZ
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…
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
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
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