Matt Yglesias wonders whether being made to read small amounts of material very, very carefully “is a fact about philosophy departments in general, or the Harvard philosophy department in particular”.
It’s a fact about analytic philosophy. Especially the M&E people. Every clause counts with them, because there’s no data, only argument. So there aren’t any casual […]
Via Patrick Nielsen Hayden comes yet another interesting goddamn blog, this time from a history prof at Swarthmore. My God, have you people no pity? Give it a rest with your pithy and insighful commentary already. I’m supposed to be writing articles, for crying out loud.
I think I’ll be distributing this to my students soon, […]
Business intrudes on blogging. For shame. In the meantime, some random thoughts:
When someone raises the “meme” meme I am “tempted” meme to “reach” meme for my “crap” meme.
Why has the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, widely linked to by warbloggers, adopted this logo? Surely it stinks of the cheese-stained streets where it was […]
It looks like I was performing a public service when I recently posted about how to deal with philosophers, because Laurie’s co-authored paper on Causation and Preemption is certainly getting lots of attention from bloggers. Remember to buy the book when it comes out later this year from MIT Press.
Kevin Drum talks about research on memory and memory distortion by Elizabeth Loftus. She looks at how false memories can be created with a bit of suggestion.
My good friend Mara Mather at U.C. Santa Cruz also studies memory distortion. Her work is interesting because it focuses on how people remember the details of their own […]
I don’t normally post this sort of thing, but here you go. Most weekends, if I can help it, I go mountain biking with SAMBA, a local club. Today was just one of those perfect Arizona winter days—- an absurdly sunny 72 degrees—- and we rode Chiva Falls, a moderately technical trail. We had quite […]
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