Charles Shaar Murray’s three-part programme looking at a very neglected but critically important aspect of Zappa.
Food Porn Friday
OK, so it’s just gone on Saturday but I’ve been meaning to bring Scott Gold’s column to your attention. Check out his other entries.
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 22
Mr. I. Abelman, Mongoloid, Esq.,
We have received via post your absurd comments about our trousers, the comments revealing, as they did, your total lack of contact with reality. Were you more aware, you would know or realize by now that the offending trousers were dispatched to you with our full knowledge that they were inadequate so far as length was concerned.
“Why? Why?” you are in your incomprehensible babble, unable to assimilate stimulating concepts of commerce into your retarded and blighted worldview (p.77).
Treme cookbook
Pat Churchland’s latest
Touching a Nerve. It was a pleasure to attend a series of talks by Pat last year. Below is a filmed record of one of those talks.
Fred Dretske (1932-2013)
This from Philosophy of Brains.
In this age of histrionics, he was a thoughtful, honest, and thorough thinker. He was often more thorough in discussing the weaknesses of his position than the people who thought they were providing original critiques of his work.
Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content
Check out this recently released book by Dan Hutto and Erik Myin. The book will be reviewed by the very excellent Tom Froese for The Journal of Mind & Behavior. Stay tuned.
Speaking of enactivism see this special issue of Constructivist Foundations dedicated to Neurophenomenology.
Constructivist Foundations must rate as one of the best open access journals I have come across.
The dialogically extended mind: Language as skilful intersubjective engagement
Here’s a new paper by Nivedita Gangopadhyay et al., Nivedita being a contributor to this special issue as well which I’ll feature over the coming weeks.
Surfaces and Essences
Hofstadter’s (and Sander’s) latest.
