Jim Holt’s sober review of Daniel Kahneman’s new book (Thinking, Fast and Slow — By Daniel Kahneman — Book Review – NYTimes.com) is wisely cautionary. An excerpt: “Even if we could rid ourselves of the biases and illusions identified in this book — and Kahneman, citing his own lack of progress in overcoming them, doubts … Continue reading
Here. Most of my fellow philosophers will undoubtedly frown upon my paying attention to Zizek, let alone linking to him. But talk to me when you merit an invitation to share your ideas on Charlie Rose (or any other show), and then acquit yourself so well (physical tics and all).
What Steve Jobs Understood That Our Politicians Don’t – NYTimes.com. One the fundamental issues we have to confront today is scale. Perhaps we’re too big to succeed. Think smaller.
From today’s New York Times: David Brooks on the emergence of moral individualism The odd thing here is that we tend to be surprised and think something has gone wrong. If you start down the road of privatizing the good, as we did at the birth of Modernity, this is where you inevitably arrive. What’s … Continue reading
John Lanchester · The Non-Scenic Route to the Place We’re Going Anyway: The Belgian Solution · LRB 8 September 2011.
Sport Murphy, “Sing Me To Sleep” [Live in Sport's backyard] – YouTube.
Age of Outrage – NYTimes.com.
Here Blackburn, too, is unimpressed (here is another underwhelmed reviewer). I haven’t read this particular iteration of Parfit’s view yet, but from what I have previously, I give him credit for his ‘quietism’. If your are going to be a normative realist (in the philosophical sense of that term), then own up to the fact … Continue reading
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