Original Confederacy of Dunces Artwork
The original artwork for CoD was done by one Ed Linlof. Below is a letter of his to Thelma Toole. a confederacy of duncesEd LindlofJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansThelma Toole
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Getting to the Hayekian Network
Last, but by no means least, Troy’s chapter. Friedrich HayekHayek in Mindnetwork theoryphilosophical psychologySpontaneous orderTROY CAMPLIN
False-positive neuroimaging
Here’s a piece courtesy of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s biology preprint server bioRxiv. Undisclosed flexibility in testing spatial hypotheses allows presenting anything as a replicated finding fMRI image of my own nut, 2001: Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging Institute of Neurology, UCL bioRxivfmrineural correlatesNeurobiologyNeuroimagingneuroscience
Bowie’s Piano Man and Guitar Man
I had the pleasure of seeing maestros Mike Garson and Earl Slick in a relatively intimate hall (less than a thousand capacity) from two yards away. What a treat to see up close the skill of the original musicians of two of the most challenging and memorable of instrumental pieces. Needless to say, one of…
Shapiro’s Embodied Cognition
Larry Shapiro’s Embodied Cognition is about to be published as a second edition. Cognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionExtended cognitionLawrence ShapiroPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
The Consolation of Philosophy
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Consolation of Philosophy with A. C. Grayling, Melissa Lane, and Roger Scruton. a.c. graylingBoethiusconsolation of philosophyMelvyn BraggRoger Scruton
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide
Recently published. DostoyevskyJohn DesmondsuicideWalker Percy
Taleb the Philosopher
Since I’m deeply in Boëthius mode for my forthcoming edited book of essays on A Confederacy of Dunces, this invocation of Boëthius and Taleb grabbed me. Here is Joshua Hochschild’s review of Taleb’s collected works. Boethius the patron saint of bullshit detectors. Taleb displays familiarity with many expected theorists of epistemological humility: Montaigne and Hume, Hayek…
Cognitive Opening and Closing: Toward an Exploration of the Mental World of Entrepreneurship
Thierry Aimar’s chapter. complexityEntrepreneurshipFriedrich HayekHayekHayek in MindKirznerLachmannneuroeconomicsphilosophical psychologySensory OrderThierry Aimar
Already Ready Already
The latest Galactic album dropped today. Here is a review in OffBeat. Here too is the band’s own blurb. You can listen to the album here. Amy Winehouse fans will enjoy this. Oh yes I forgot to mention that the album also features Princess Shaw, whose lovely story is documented here. (Princess Shaw tells me that…
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