Sense and Function
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MY RECENT POSTS
- Dear White Men Defending Black
Studies,
May 11, 2012 11:01AM - 10,000 Views!
May 03, 2012 07:58PM - No Laughing at the Attack on
Black Studies
May 03, 2012 07:37PM - Why Cloud Gate, Chicago?
April 14, 2012 09:41PM - Mitt Romney's Finances:
Private Equity and Capital
Gains
April 14, 2012 10:25AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Well said, Adam!”
May 16, 2012 02:06AM - “mishima666 writes: "In
other words Riley wrote
negatively
about
dissertation…”
May 14, 2012 07:35PM - “Thanks for these, Rob!
I've only read a few of these,
but I
have two other
sugges…”
May 14, 2012 09:18AM - “mishima666: what we are
not talking about here is
a
publication run by the
mob.
O…”
May 14, 2012 09:07AM - “This is a comment by
Adam Smith, which I am
reposting
here:
On
Open Salon, and
to…”
May 14, 2012 12:50AM
Mark Sentesy's Links
Picture possibly by Builder
Levy, possibly in Memphis, 1968. The white men are not wearing the
sign. Intentional or accidental, this makes the point that the
military presence underlines.
A writer for the debate section of the Chronicle of Higher
Education (CHE)… Read full post »
MAY 3, 2012 7:58PM
10,000 Views!
10,000 Years = The Long Now I just noticed that
this blog passed the 10,000 view-mark today. All that since I
started the blog at the very end of November, 2011. Thanks,
everybody: keep reading, writing, and reposting!Mark
Also, go check out the Long Now website,/…
MAY 3, 2012 7:37PM
No Laughing at the Attack on Black Studies
On reading this genuinely
revolting article
in the Chronicle of Higher Education, I feel compelled to
sign this
petition challenging the CHE at least to withdraw the
article, and at most, to discipline its author. The
author, Naomi
Schaefer Riley, was responding
… Read full post »
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APRIL 14, 2012 9:41PM
Why Cloud Gate, Chicago?
Cloud Gate, or, the BeanLet's play a game: What are
the top three symbols of Chicago? One of them will probably be
"Cloud Gate,"
the beautiful polished steel shape
in Millennium Park,
at the heart of Chicago. What is it like, and
… Read full post »
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APRIL 14, 2012 10:25AM
Mitt Romney's Finances: Private Equity and Capital Gains
MARCH 28, 2012 1:26AM
The Death of Coal
David Roberts, in an article for grist.org,
wrote an article recently about the top five things you need to know about
EPA’s new carbon rule. He points
out that the EPA recently passed tough new rules for carbon
emissions from power plants:
"No new… Read full post »
MARCH 24, 2012 12:05AM
Choose Wealth or Health in the Tar Sands?
In his interview for CBC, Stephen
Harper portrayed the decision about the Northern Gateway pipeline
as a choice between jobs and environmental health. This is an
old and false opposition: people do not choose between wealth and
health. They want to have both. This is a framing problem. Two
pos/… Read full post »
MARCH 21, 2012 12:00AM
Tar Sands: Risky or Damaging?
There are
two Alberta tar sands pipelines, which
environmentalists and people from the community have condemned
as damaging. The communications manager for the Northern Gateway
pipeline to the Pacific coast of Canada, Paul Stanway, re-cast
its existence not as damaging, but as risky. He
calls… Read full post »
MARCH 12, 2012 11:52PM
Going from Fiscal Austerity to Contraception
The media noise about Sandra Fluke, pushed onto the national stage by Rush Limbaugh's disgusting verbal attacks, the alienation of his advertisers, his inadequate written apology follows very nicely after the numerous bills intended to regulate women's reproductive organs (including, among othe/…
MARCH 8, 2012 12:45AM
Understanding Heidegger's Origin of the Work of Art
A friend asked
me: "What is going on in Heidegger's Origin of
the Work of Art?" This is my rough response.
In general, one of the virtues of Heidegger's philosophical
work is that it forces us to de-compartmentalize our concepts and
activities. Things that normally appear to be quite… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 24, 2012 2:11PM
The Terrifying Cost of the Tar Sands
I am extremely upset by this recent TEDxVictoria talk about
"The
True Cost of Oil."
Downstream from the un-lined tailings ponds are a number of aboriginal communities. People know that you cannot eat the fish from the river or drink the water because it is cancerous, carcinogenic. And yet, some…
Downstream from the un-lined tailings ponds are a number of aboriginal communities. People know that you cannot eat the fish from the river or drink the water because it is cancerous, carcinogenic. And yet, some…
FEBRUARY 22, 2012 8:36PM
Body-Movement and Photography
Vermont Field
I have for several years been engaged in a photographic project about unmanageable, unphotographable scenes, landscapes, or subjects. See my photography and movement post on blogger for full images.
I took this photograph of a field in Peacham, Vermont, because… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 22, 2012 6:14PM
The Analytic-Continental Divide: A Response to Gutting
Gottlob Frege
Edmund Husserl
Gary Gutting recently wrote an article on the Continental/Analytic divide for NYT's The Stone. The discussion is fairly even-handed, and argues that Continental and Analytic philosophers should learn from each other. Gutting also holds up as exemplar/… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 9, 2012 7:36PM
Political Effects of Thoughtlessness
I posted
recently about what I think is an epidemic of
thoughtlessness. This epidemic may
always have been this bad, but with the spread of electronic media
there are good reasons for thinking it might be worse now, not
least because there are so many more opportunities for distraction,
which interfe… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 7, 2012 7:11PM
Wall Street, Castrated?
Banks
are backed into a corner, and the boom years aren't going to come
back soon. A recent article in the Times, entitled “Is
This the End of Wall Street As They Knew It?” makes the
claim that "Banks have always had occasional bad
… Read full post »
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Drumming against the failure of the
un-free market
When you really get down to it, The Tea Party and Occupy Wall
Street are both trying to defend everyone. They disagree about who
the enemy is, but agree on the problems: the diminishing middle
class, a systematic corruption
FEBRUARY 5, 2012 7:12PM
The Story of GMOs, In Links and Comments
You'll find here information about Monsanto
and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). There is
a story in these links. It is a story about the environment,
local farms, federal and international governments, the
attempt to sneak GMOs into our food supply by figh… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 4, 2012 6:55PM
An Epidemic of Thoughtlessness?
At the risk of seeming politically
incorrect, I have to say that thoughtlessness is an epidemic. We
need to look at what forms being thoughtless might take, and what
thought might be.
A lot of… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 2, 2012 3:37PM
Obama Gives Everyone Everything with Keystone XL
The Obama Administration's January 18 decision to reject the
Republican 60-day limit on the environmental assessment of the
Keystone XL pipeline kicks the can down the road... straight
to this year's election. The Alberta tar sands pipeline has
become a political hot button/… Read full post »
JANUARY 29, 2012 9:09PM
Environmental Groups Called Enemies of Canada Over Enbridge's Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
In line with their earlier
attacks on environmental groups on behalf of the oil companies
behind Alberta's tar sands extraction, some opposition to the Northern Gateway oil sands
pipeline has been declared the enemy of the Government of
Canada and the enemy of the People of Canada. This is/… Read full post »
JANUARY 25, 2012 12:00AM
Why GDP is Not Related to Well-Being
The Problem with GDP Accounting
One lesson of the Occupy movement is that economic value is not the only or even the most important kind of value. In fact, economic activity has no necessary correlation with well-being, and in significant cases, thrives on sickness and catastrophe.
One reason… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 26, 2011 1:40AM
Thanksgiving Trip to the Northeast
This trip has been all about
color:
The sun had passed underneath the thin layer of high cloud, as the earth tilted away from it, until the sun was lighting the cloud from beneath. This/…
NOVEMBER 22, 2011 5:26AM
Jeremy Walker's blog
Definitely have a look at this blog. My brother is one thoughtful
man: http://jerwalkie.wordpress.com/
In particular, he has great posts on Freedom and Responsibility
"I agree that personal freedom is something we don’t have enough of in our society. I just disagree with the strategy of… Read full post »
In particular, he has great posts on Freedom and Responsibility
"I agree that personal freedom is something we don’t have enough of in our society. I just disagree with the strategy of… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 21, 2011 6:12PM
Delsarte's own words - a poem
Delsarte’s own words:
fathers.
find no difficulty in
attributing to invisible bodies
both the plan and the
execution of the beings
who people the
universe.
To such a degree of
degradation can reason drag man down.… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 21, 2011 4:20PM
On Getting into Philosophy
One of the most valuable people in any
endeavor is the person who can work out what the problems really
are that we need to work on. Students who come to university and
into philosophy classes, however, often have the idea that they
come to learn theories, that… Read full post »
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