The Signal: The History of Signal Processing and How We Communicate
A collaborator of mine, Ted Lewis, has a new book out. Computer Scienceinformation agemathematicssignal processingTed Lewis
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Adam Smith as Scottish Philosopher
Was Adam Smith a Scottish philosopher? The question seems an odd one. He was a philosopher and he was Scottish. What more could we need to know, in order to arrive at the simple answer ‘yes.’ And in any case, why does it matter? On reflection, however, neither the question nor the answer seems so…
Why I Am Not a Buddhist
Due in January of 2020. For more on Evan’s work see his website. There are conferences, courses, and celebrities promoting the notion that Buddhism is spirituality for the rational; compatible with cutting-edge science; indeed, “a science of the mind.” In this provocative book, Evan Thompson argues that this representation of Buddhism is false. BuddhismconsciousnessEmbodied cognitive…
Published! Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State
Published! authorityEric Kosgovvernancejames alexanderLiberalismMichael OakeshottPolitical philosophystateTimothy Fuller
Moto Guzzi V85 TT
This is a lot of coin (11,100 quid) for a second bike but were one gonna have a second floozy, this would be a contender. The V85 TT really seems to be a jack of all trades for those who have long-since tired of crotch-rockets. While across the range Guzzi has always had the strongest sense…
Office Gambling
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The neurophilosophical case for an evolutionary turn in neuroeconomics
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath’s latest bringing together luminaries as diverse as Hayek, Churchland, Sperber, Clark, Edelman, Tooby and Cosmides &c. Carsten Herrmann-PillathEmbodied cognitive scienceEvolutionary PsychologyExternalismFriedrich HayekneuroeconomicsPatricia Churchlandphilosophical psychologythe sensory order
Reissue of SHAFT
Released today. Stax store. acid funkisaac hayesmusicpsychedelic funkshaftStax
The “Dhimmi” Jew vs. the “Maccabean” Jew
The redoubtable, incisive and subtle Douglas Murray is the only current public intellectual I’ve come across to have read Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite. While Murray points to Rezzori’s central psychological insight that anti-Semitism is a form of prestige (i.e. snobbery), I want to add a further complicating wrinkle to the discussion. That is,…
Smith on Smith
Here is the opening paragraph to Vernon’s Foreward to Propriety and Prosperity. I would urge anyone interested in situated cognition to read his superb Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms, amazingly an unknown work within situated circles, proponent or critic. Also worth a read is Vernon’s memoir. This book is a welcome addition to the resurgent scholarly…
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