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While lecturing on Tristan Garcia's chapter on history today I couldn't help but remember this essay by Adam Curtis on music and youth rejection in the Soviet Union. Curtis explores the psychic fallout of the widespread failure of communism to deliver on the very promises that legitimated it (e.g. we keep breaking all these eggs…
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In the discussion at the phil smoker on the philjobs appointments page a lot of interesting issues are raised, including: whether one should put one's adjuncting jobs on it, how post docs seemed to only be available to people from the most prestigious schools, the extent to which one can infer affirmative action from the…
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reflections on beautiful souls, hypocrites, undecidability results, and the structure of normativity
In much of the philosophy of language and mind coming out of the late Wittgenstein and/or early Heidegger, a distinction is made between merely following a norm versus also being able to correctly assess whether others are following that norm. Note that the Brandom of "Dasein, the Being that Thematizes" (in Tales of the Mighty…
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Announcement at the SPEP's blog here. I went to last year's symposium on Schelling and it was one of the most fun, productive conferences I've been to. They have a participant's conference for the first two days, so you get to see papers by all of the students and faculty who are attending. It's really…
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I sometimes get asked why one should bother attending to continental metaphysics.* It's an impossible question to answer in generality, because different people asking it usually have such contradictory presuppositions. If the person is anti-metaphysical, any answer has to be directed to the neo-Kantian presumption that proper philosophy is some form of transcendental epistemology. If…
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At the Chronicle here.* Kripal argues that we don't have more empirical evidence for extra-sensory kinds of perception, because such perceptions usually involve trauma, often the death of a loved one. And of course we can't replicate these things in a laboratory. Two of his examples are Mark Twain and Swedenborg, the first involving a…
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I came across this gem today, Nirvana covering Terry Jacks in Brazil: I think they had to trade instruments to keep just a smidgeon of ironic distance from the schmaltzyness of the original. This kind of necessity is the curse of my generation.
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Really fine review of the movie (filmed on the LSU campus) at Psychology Today here, with a number of comparisons between the film and that one Rocky film where Stallone wins the Cold War, including this: If you recall, the Russian boxer Drago trains in a state of the art scientific facility, where they measure…
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The interview is online at Edinburgh University Press here.* There are lots of juicy tidbits, for example this from Ohm: The latter half of the 20th century bequeathed the Anglophone world a very one-sided picture of “French Theory.” The soixante-huitards were like our noble savages. Many important voices were silenced, due perhaps to institutional and…
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I had a weird visceral thought after reading two recent NDPR reviews: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics (ed. Robert Batterman, including a cool piece by friend of the blog David Wallace), and Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics (Hsiang-Ke Chao, Szu-Ting Chen, and Roberta L. Millstein, of newapps fame) If Plutynski and…
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