Fats
While Santa put a Fats Domino record on the phonograph, Angelo, sniffling and looking a little confused, sat down on the kitchen chair across from Mrs. Reilly and Mr. Robichaux. boogie woogieConfederacy of DuncesFats Dominonew orleanspiano
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Fractal Localism: Political Rigor and Clarity under Complexity
Well distilled. Complex adaptive systemcomplexityConservatismembedded liberalismFriedrich HayekNassim Nicholas Talebrationality
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
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…
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