Here’s a most interesting article that reemphasizes the functional beauty of the Anglophone tradition of common law and language. As Givati points out, English, be it “BBC standard” or Jamaican (and everything in between), is essentially of a distributed character. This is one of the reasons why English is so adaptable (science and business), so culturally rich,…
New Thomas Peyser article in Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal Henry David Thoreauspontaneous ordersThomas Peyser
Worth checking out this recently published book. As has been variously argued, jazz as a spontaneous order makes a nonsense of the vulgar rationalisms peddled by the “cultural appropriation” fundamentalists. Conversationjack sullivanJazzmusicnew orleansregressive leftSpontaneous order
Russ Roberts chats with John McWhorter. John McWhorterlanguageLinguisticsPhilosophy of LanguageRuss RobertsSpontaneous order
I had the honour to meet the very excellent Paul Cantor recently. Check out his freely available book here. Austrian EconomicsEconomicsLibertyliterary criticismpaul cantorphilosophical literatureSpontaneous order
Call for papers aestheticscollective intentionalitycomplexitycosmos & taxisExtended MindJazzrationalismsituated cognitionsocial epistemologysocial philosophySpontaneous orderStigmergyWynton Marsalis
The Economist Abstract According to Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek and everyone else who knows what he or she is talking about, well-functioning markets depend, inter alia, upon clear property rights and a judicial system that enforces agreements and resolve disputes. It’s true that Friedrich Hayek, whom Mr Linker shamelessly abuses, is the most prominent 20th-century…
