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Just released. Scott Guion’s painting for Jazz Fest 50.

A Note on the Influence of Mach’s Psychology in the Sensory Order

January 16, 2019friedrich hayek

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Jimbo @ 75

January 9, 2019jimmy page

This article from five years ago. Just the other night after a long gap, I watched The Song Remains the Same again with a chum who hadn’t seen it before. Even on a first viewing, the in-your-face pomposity of it all, still didn’t detract from the music that steamrollers one into complete submission.

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Hayek’s Post-Positivist Empiricism: Experience Beyond Sensation

January 9, 2019friedrich hayek

Jan Willem Lindemans’ chapter.

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Quicksand

January 8, 2019david bowie

This is the one song aside from Station to Station that has left Bowie commenters the most flummoxed. The most expansive discussion I’ve come across on Quicksand is on Arad Alper’s The Philosophy of Pop blog. While Chris O’Leary is spot-on drawing a contrast between Lennon and Bowie (the ’60s vs. the ’70s) on his excellent Pushing Ahead of the Dame blog, at least in this case, Arad offers a far more nuanced perspective. For good measure, here too is Joshua Scott Hotchkin’s take. It’s well-worth checking out Chris’ thoughts on Station to Station. Speaking of Chris, be sure to check out his soon-to-be released Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016.

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Call for Papers: Decentralised Governance: Hayek Amongst the Machines

January 7, 2019Decentralised Governance

Check out this Call for Papers

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Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings

January 5, 2019philo of alexandria

I’ve just received my review copy of this which will appear as a joint review along with Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual Biography. This past year has turned out to be a red letter year for Philonic Studies, a book from an “old hand” (Maren Niehoff) which I have already written up and another from a “young gun” (i.e. Jennifer Otto). Once again things look promising in that the doyen of Philonic Studies, David Runia, seems to be well referenced in the latter.