Islam And The Future Of Tolerance: Now Available
On general release today. islamMaajid Nawazpolitics and religionregressive leftsam harris
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Oakeshott: born on this day
For those who’ve never read that most subtle, cultivated, humane and refined of minds Michael Oakeshott’s concerns resonate as deeply as ever. For the novice, I’d recommend his mid-career Rationalism in Politics, a most elegant collection of essays. A more difficult, but for me the vital underpinning cutting across all his work, is his equally elegant and…
The Psychology of Chess
Fernand Gobet has a new book out that, as a (very rusty) chess player, has piqued my interest. As a cognitive scientist and a highly skilled player himself, there are few (if any) better placed than Fernand to write on this topic. Visitors to this site might recall Fernand’s excellent essay on Herb Simon. Here is…
Pete Shelly
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Jonathan Pie: Back to the Studio
Jonathan Pie’s (Tom Walker) brutal and delicious scathing of regressives of all stripes but his full on excoriation (from around 36:30) is reserved for the regressive Left — check it out. (If this is blocked, it’s available here, at least for the time being). free speechhumourjonathan pieregressive leftsatiretom walker
From Wide Cognition to Mechanisms: A Silent Revolution
“Going mechanistic”: fun paper just published in Frontiers in Psychology. Culture seems to function as a classic example of “epistemic action” active externalismCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionenactivismExtended cognitionsituated cognition
Jan Ramsey: keeping music journalism alive in New Orleans
A long-overdue writeup on Jan in the Columbia Journalism Review. Bravo Jan — NOLA is deeply indebted to you and your team. Check the mag out beginning via my favourite NOLA-based band — Deltaphonic. DeltaphonicJan Ramseyjournalismmusicnew orleansOffBeat
Views of Hayek, Hebb, and Heisenberg: Toward an Approach to Brain Functioning
Neuroscientist Erol Başar erol basarFriedrich HayekHayek in Mindhebbheisenbergneurosciencephilosophical psychology
The Governor General’s Literary Awards of Canada: A Bibliography
My chum and technical philosopher par excellence, Andrew Irvine, has just had this massive project come to fruition. What a generous and substantive act of community service for CanLit scholars that even the regressive whiners (you know, the “grievance studies” shit-puppets) will benefit from. Here is Andrew explaining the rationale behind the project. …
Reflections on Ethics, Freedom, Welfare Economics, Policy, and the Legacy of Austrian Economics
December 2018! Austrian EconomicsEpistemologyfrederic sautetIsrael KirznerLiberalismliberalityPeter Boettke
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