What a terrific idea for a poster:
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2014
What a terrific idea for a poster:
Kitcher on Nagel
Things Fall Apart (an aside: the man best known for this phrase).
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 27
Social note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, that shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve. (p. 87).
Review of Franco-Marsh Companion
Review essay of A Companion to Michael Oakeshott
CONVERSATIONS WITH MICHAEL OAKESHOTT – AN INTERLUDE TO OAKESHOTT SCHOLARSHIP
by Suvi Soininen
Redescriptions: yearbook of political thought, conceptual history and feminist theory. 2012/2013, vol. 16, pp. 172-187 (in downloadable pdf)
Martha Argerich & Charles Dutoit
A great team reunited: if Martha doesn’t cancel . . .
Rompin’ Boogie Woogie Classics
A must have for any discriminating record collection. Interesting to note that the label is UK-based but then we Brits have always had a soft spot for boogie-woogie, one of the finest practictioners along with Jools Holland was of course the “sixth” Stone – Ian “Stu” Stewart, immortalized by Led Zep as “Boogie with Stu” on Physical Graffiti. I’m very much looking forward to getting my copy of Boogie 4 Stu.
EPISTEME 10:3
GETTIERIZED KNOBE EFFECTS James R. Beebe and Joseph Shea
A RELIABILISM BUILT ON COGNITIVE CONVERGENCE: AN EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED SOLUTION TO THE GENERALITY PROBLEM Martin L. Jönsson
A NEW PROSPECT FOR EPISTEMIC AGGREGATION Daniel Berntson and Yoaav Isaacs
PHOTOGRAPHICALLY BASED KNOWLEDGE Dan Cavedon-Taylor
EXPLANATIONIST EVIDENTIALISM Kevin McCain
IS FOUNDATIONAL A PRIORI JUSTIFICATION INDISPENSABLE? Ted Poston
LEARNING TO SIGNAL WITH PROBE AND ADJUST – CORRIGENDUM Brian Skyrms
New Trombone Shorty album
Listen to the album here.
Ronald Coase (1910-2013)
Why Writers Drink
Three very warm reviews of Olivia Laing’s The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink.
Olivia Laing’s . . . book takes its title from a line in Tennessee Williams’s play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It’s an apt phrase for a book about writers and alcoholism, with its combined dose of the sublime and the helplessly mortal. But “Echo Spring” is only the liquor cabinet, named after a brand of whiskey.
The alcoholic writer’s sense of mortality is key. F Scott Fitzgerald, an insomniac, had an annihilating vision before sleep; he imagined he was only one of the dark millions riding forward in black buses toward the unknown.
I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.
Churchill.
