What do you seek — God? you ask with a smile. I hesitate to answer, since all other Americans have settled the matter for themselves and to give such an answer would amount to setting myself a goal which everyone else has reached — and therefore raising a question in which no one has the…
Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today’s employer is now seeking (p. 134). a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
This interview from New Philosopher I don’t read much philosophy, it upsets me when I read the nonsense written by my contemporaries, the theory of extended mind makes me want to throw up…so mostly I read works of fiction and history. Artificial intelligenceBrainChinese RoomCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessExtended MindExternalismJohn SearlePhilosophy of mindqualiathe “hard” problem of consciousness
Here is a recent freebie written by Vernon Smith who also happens to be writing the Forward to the forthcoming volume Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith. Adam Smithadam smith problemcomplexitypropriety and prosperitySpontaneous orderVernon Smith
Here’s an interesting survey article. My regular collaborator (a pathologist, special adivisor for planning for a large medical school and a complexity theorist — all one person I might add) has been subtly implementing such an approach for many years. What is unusual (and I think right) about the graphic below is that though all…
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“Go dangle your withered parts over the toilet!” Ignatius screamed savagely (p. 122). “Oh, shut up your little pussymouth, you mongoloid” (p. 123). “A little job in a office and you can’t hold it down. With all your education.” “I was hated and resented,” Ignatius said, casting a hurt expression at the brown walls of…
This bit of froth I actually found amusing. It is wryly written, it is about New Orleans and alcohol — oops the latter two are of course at one — and most of all, it is true. I think that were I a student at any of the terrific universities in New Orleans, I wouldn’t…
Coming Soon: C+T 1.2 Frederick Turner — “Quality, quantity, granularity, and thresholds of emergence” Stefano Moroni — “Two different theories of two distinct spontaneous phenomena: orders of actions and evolution of institutions in Hayek” Chor-yung Cheung — “Hayek on Nomocracy and Teleocracy: a critical assessment” Lauren K. Hall — “Guiding the invisible hand: spontaneous orders…
This from ABC (Australia) from a few years back — audio and transcript — featuring two chaps who made it over to London for MOA 2001. The fresh Oakeshott images below by Brian John Spencer. a companion to michael oakeshottBrian John Spencerian tragenzaMichael Oakeshottpeter colemanPolitical philosophy
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