The Perils of Rationalism in American Urban Policy
Recently published paper by David Imbroscio. Freely available here and here. city planningDavid ImbrosciJane JacobsMichael Oakeshottrationalism
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Taleb on the place of religion
As one would expect, a subtle view of religion that rationalists (typically adhering to one secular religion or another) have a blind spot to. Daniel DennettLudwig WittgensteinNassim Nicholas Talebrationalismreligion and scienceRichard Dawkins
Giacomo Leopardi
Leopardi is quite possibly my favourite poet, this despite my reading him in English and being aware that quite a bit must be getting lost. Anyway, David Bentley Hart reviews Zibaldone published a few years back pointing out in his review Leopardi’s paradoxical cast of mind as does the always insightful John Gray (second and third quotes) He had a particular…
Remembering Ken Minogue
Born on this day — see the themed issue of Cosmos + Taxis dedicated to Ken. Here is Ken at his elegant and wry best in Morals & the servile mind. I think Ken would have been chuffed by BREXIT not necessarily because of which side actually won, but because of which side was the most arrogant. Clue .…
Oakeshott on friendship
Friends are not concerned with what might be made of one another, but only with the enjoyment of one another; and the condition of this enjoyment is a ready acceptance of what is and the absence of any desire to change or to improve. A friend is not somebody one trusts to behave in a…
Intellectual Yet Idiot
Nassim Nicholas Taleb gives the Platonic rationalist “elites” a mega bitch slap (Original source here). Supplemented by the recent lunacy as per below, I suspect that though philosophers (rightly so) got their knickers in a twist a couple of years ago when deGrasse Tyson slammed the value of philosophy, they’d be well on board with this…
Christina Hoff Sommers and Camille Paglia: The full interview
Based Mom and Based Goddess let rip on the toxic cocktail of cultural infantilization, the new Stalinism (kangaroo courts), free-speech, identity politics, advocacy posing as academic inquiry, willful ignorance of the past, the ethics of teaching (intellectual dishonesty), utopianism, “cultural appropriation”, radical social constructivism, and on crapping on the “secret people” (gamergate) — totemic of those whom the…
The Rule of Law in the Modern European State
David Boucher’s article from a decade ago freely available here. The shit-storm that we are now in is a consequence of complicitous “ruling class chatter” (Left and Right) and “enlightened” technocracy, a politics of faith that has become way out of wack with the politics of scepticism. The European Union required of its aspirant members formal…
Want to See Women’s Equality? Look to Jazz
Mark Judge article in Acculturated (Mark can be excused for using the tarnished term “liberal” which unfortunately gives genuine free speech liberals a bad name). Many of the best jazz musicians are women, and many of them are creating brilliant music. Furthermore, they create without having to resort to shedding clothing or causing public scandal to…
“Storify” Version of Q+A
Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon Artificial intelligenceBounded Rationalitycomplexitycomputational intelligenceDecision makingEconomicsFernand GobetHerbert SimonMarcin MiłkowskiMarco NovaresePsychologyrationalismsatisficing
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