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Stan Tracey 1926 – 2013
Obituary in The Telegraph. Charlie Wattsduke ellingtonJazzmusicRonnie ScottSonny RollinsStan TraceyThelonious Monk
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 39
As a lecturer Dr. Talc was renowned for the facile and sarcastic wit and easily digested generalizations that made him popular among the girl students and helped to conceal his lack of knowledge about almost everything in general and British history in particular (p. 110). a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
An anti-realist interpretation of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism
Check out my chum and occasional collaborator’s two-part discussion of Kiyoshi Chiba’s Kants Ontologie der raumzeitlichen Wirklichkeit. Part I Part II anti-realismchris onofKantKiyoshi Chibatranscendental idealism
Little Richard @ 81
Born on this day. Little Richardmusicrock ‘n roll
Thelma Toole Interview
Thelma being . . . Thelma . . . what with the ubiquitous piano. (Also I’ve just noted that the excellent documentary on Toole, a collaboration between Toole biographer Corey MacLauchlin and film-maker Joe Sanford, has been updated — and there is now a transcript which I’d have found handy when writing my forthcoming review of…
Life, death, music and food
An eloquent review of the final season of Treme from the LA Times. the series takes its form from the city’s substance; it does not so much present a point of view as embody a perpetual argument….It is romantic and naturalistic at once, as dreamy and earthy as the place in which it takes place…
Neuroaesthetics . . .
This from the NYT (h/t to Shannon Selin). We will see . . . but me thinks the results (as with neuroeconomics) will be over-stated. Still, great marketing ploy for the author and his publisher. Check out The Science of Art and Brain and Art. This is a very good culturally informed and salutary article that one…
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 38
We do correspond quite regularly, the usual theme of Myrna’s correspondence tending to urge me to participate in lie-ins and wade-ins and sit-ins and such. Since, however, I do not eat at lunch counters and do not swim, I have ignored her advice. The subsidiary theme in the correspondence is one urging me to come…
Neurotechnology, Invasiveness and the Extended Mind
This from the latest issue of Neuroethics December 2013, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 593-605. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid Chalmersdistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismNeuroethicsPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
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