A while back I posted some links to photos of life in Tehran. I just figured out how to make Microsoft OneNote grab my favorite picture from Flickr, so I thought I’d share it: I love the summer greens mixed with the bright grays and blues of a metropolis. The child in the center says… Continue reading Insert Words/Images Ratio Here
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Getting Things Done (Philosopher’s Edition)
My family likes the business self-help section of the bookstore. When I was an an awkward adolescent, my father made me read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and How to Win Friends and Influence People. Seriously. I’m not a big fan of this kind of thing; I think it’s a bit of a… Continue reading Getting Things Done (Philosopher’s Edition)
The New Executive Order: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Market Failure
I’m late in getting to this news, but on January 18th, President Bush amended Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review. The new order, EO # 13422, has some interesting and potentially troubling new provisions. Here are some links: pro, pro, pro, con, con, con. Public Citizen identifies three problems with the new order,… Continue reading The New Executive Order: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Market Failure
Lakoff 1, Pinker 0
George Lakoff responds to Steven Pinker’s review of Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America’s Most Important Idea. Highlights include shocking charges of deception or incompetence on both sides. This is the only paragraph of vitriol-free prose I could find in the review, and since it’s mostly summary I’ll include it here: Lakoff’s theory is aimed… Continue reading Lakoff 1, Pinker 0
Pain as a Propositionless Attitude
The argument for a separate status for the mental extends ultimately to the claim that there is something it is like to hope, believe, or experience redly, and that this likeness is irreducible to any other form of explanation that depends only on third-person arguments. In one form, this can be seen in Frank Jackson’s… Continue reading Pain as a Propositionless Attitude