Bertrand Russell: Science and philosophy

My chum and Russell scholar par excellence has this piece in the TLS.

As Wittgenstein sums up Russell’s insight, “Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity”. Something similar might be said of science as well.

Bertrand Russell, 1951

Design and simulation of the emergent behavior of small drones swarming for distributed target localization

Just published in the Journal of Computational Science.

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Marty Balin

Marty and especially Grace Slick at their best. Joe Viglione understands. My chum Carmella Scaggs had much to say about Jefferson Airplane/Starship (maybe for some other time).

It’s probably the only time Slick and Balin ever made love, their voices pure sex together inside this tune about the potential of that once-in-a-lifetime friendship.

Diamonds in the Rough: The Peirce-Percy Semiotic in The Second Coming

In Walker Percy, Philosopher

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That Mystery Category “Fourthness” and Its Relationship to the Work of C. S. Peirce

In Walker Percy, Philosopher

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