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EPISTEME: Volume 15 – Issue 2 – June 2018
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Mishima’s classic published in English (translated by Ivan Morris) on this date in 1959. See Donald Keene’s original review “Beauty Itself Became a Deadly Enemy” in the NYT. aestheticsDonald KeeneJapanphilosophical literatureYukio Mishima
Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
Recently released. autonomyconsciousnessEmotionFree willmeaningmoralsNeuroexistentialismneuroscienceowen flanaganphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindpurposeselfhood
Moosbrugger: madness and modernism
George Ikkos has a short piece in The British Journal of Psychiatry 212: 1: 56. George IkkosMan Without Qualitiesmodernityphilosophical literaturepsychiatryRobert Musil
Deltaphonic on tour
Deltaphonic are on an extended tour. To my mind, they are one of the best things to have come out of NOLA of late (and that’s high praise indeed). The songwriting is incredibly mature and authentic and the musicianship compelling articulates that vibe. Don’t take my word for it: Kevin Quinet has warm words for them…
Walker Percy Wednesday 185
What has this to do with existentialism? We will pass over the epistemological consequences of symbolic knowing, the possession of the thing by the symbol rather than adaptation by signal-a knowing which is indeed existential in the broad sense of knowing something by being something-and go at once to the more typical existentialia. The recognition…
An Architecture of the Mind: A Psychological Foundation for the Science of Everyday Life
I’m very pleased to have across this new book. Behavioral economicsCognitive scienceConnectionismneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of social sciencesituated cognition
Remembering, Forgetting and Self-Constitution: A Comparison of The Last Gentleman and Lanterns on the Levee
To mark the birth of William Alexander Percy here is a paper published in the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Here is Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s Introduction to the 2006 edition of Percy’s Lanterns on the Levee. And here too is James E. Person Jr.’s look at Percy’s memoir. Bertram Wyatt-Brownlanterns on the leveethe last gentlemanWalker PercyWilliam…
Oakeshott Association: Call for Papers
You are cordially invited to the tenth international conference of the Michael Oakeshott Association to be held at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon, September 19-22, 2019. The theme is “Philosophy, Poetry, and Conservatism.” We hope to engage Oakeshott scholars as well as students and non-academics with an interest in the thought of Michael…
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