Comments on: Completely Mental

By: raj

raj — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“These are the irreducible, fundamental building blocks of mental life.”

Oh, gawd. The author sounds to me like another of these “irreducible complexity” bloviators. Best to ignore him/her/it.

By: Martial

Martial — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

But…but…why “David Hume” and not, say, “John Locke”?

By: John Isbell

John Isbell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fun.
“with the exception of (the real) David Hume.”
I guess you’d have to define “real.”
I think I’m going to start publishing as A. Einstein. Folks will buy me without reading me.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think I will choose “J. K. Rowling”

By: Curtiss Leung

Curtiss Leung — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

C’mon folks, think big: Stephen King.

By: david

david — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I liked sid barnett when he was with pink floyd but he went downhill after that.

By: Kent Bach

Kent Bach — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This book may be all wet, but water isn’t. It makes things wet.

By: Kregg

Kregg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Are you suggesting Mr. Hume needs to use his mentality to wake up, wake up to reality?

By: QrazyQat

QrazyQat — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Let’s see, we’ve got two books we can review this week, and space for only one review. One is a “I know everything and you should listen” book by a guy named Sid Barnett; the other is an “I know everything and you should listen” by David Hume. What do you guys think?”

“I don’t know; that second one sounds interesting.”

“It’s not actually David Hume, you know.”

“Duh. I know that. What do you take me for? But our readers will read about that sooner than some doofus named Sid Barnett.”

“Okay, then it’s decided. Any other business before lunch? No. See you all at 2:00.”

By: OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY

OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

PAGING DAVID HUME

Kieran Healy posts an extended review of The Elements of Mentality, a rather ambitious book by a fellow using the pseudonym “David Hume.” The book…