Featured Article · The Philosopher’s Stone
Eighteen years ago, in the early months of 2004, Susie and I paid off the mortgage on the house we had built for us when we married in 1987. Feeling flush with cash, we made two big expenditures. First, I bought for myself a brand-new flashy Toyota Camry with all the bells and whistles – power doors, power windows, power seats, and cruise control. Then Susie and I bought a tiny 330 square foot apartment on the left bank of Paris just outside Place Maubert. I was a young, vigorous 70-year-old running the doctoral program in Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. For all the years since, we have been going to that Paris pied-ä-terre several times a year, renting it out when we could to cover the costs of owning it. It was there that I spent four weeks learning the viola part of Beethoven’s Opus 59 #3, the third Razumovsky quartet. It was while sitting...
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I’ve been trying to put together better notes on elementary category theory; which is an engaging exercise, but that doesn’t lead to anything very interesting to report here. Another thing occupying me on and off has been writing quite extensive comments on a draft book by an ex-colleague: but although that does raise very interesting issues, it mostly wouldn’t be appropriate to rehearse them here. Then there have been time-consuming domestic chores — including tackling the Book Problem once again. This time round, it’s been the non-work books. Piles around the house acquired over lockdown (and I’m not the only guilty party) were beginning to totter. So it’s been the occasion for an overdue major sort-out, with re-shelvings, donations of bags of books to Oxfam, and all those discussions “are either of us ever going to read that/read that again?”. Yes, I would for example, have liked to have read the massive biography of Darwin: but life is too short (a phrase that... Read More ›
Logic Matters · Featured Blog
Philosophy Talk at Marmara: Assoc. Prof. Yaylagül Ceran Karataş on “What Happened to Human Being: New Perspectives/Questions on Philosophical Anthropology” (07.06.2022) Via Zoom: Assoc. Prof. Yaylagül Ceran Karataş (Istanbul Medeniyet Univers ...
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THE HORDE OF THE COUNTERWIND (1): SF ANEMOLOGY: THE HORDE OF THE COUNTERWIND is a cult epic-length French science fiction novel published in 2004, written by Alain Damasio.
The novel combines elements of science fiction, fantasy, and philo ...
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“Towards an Object-Oriented Psychology”
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Two Short Kings: The Colorado Kid and Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
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Philosophy by the Way: Random quoteThere is not a great deal of difference between a financier who puts big sounding concerns on the market which come to grief in a few years, and the politician who promises an infinity of reforms to the citizens which he does no ...
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Jack Chambers Evolves: As we know politicians don’t have beliefs they have positions which they sincerely held at the time. When they change their position they express this move as going on a journey. In 2018 Jack Chambers at the time of ...
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Infinite Puppetry: About a year ago, I argued in a blog post that "Everything You Do Causes Almost Everything". If the universe is temporally infinite (as suggested by the current default theories in cosmology) and supports random fluctuatio ...
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