Archive for April, 2004

Come On Die Young: Empirical Confirmation That (Famous) Poets Die Early

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

Kaufman, James C. 2003. “The Cost of the Muse: Poets Die Young”, in Death Studies, Vol. 27, No. 9, November 2003, pp. 813-821.

(See also the New York Times article).

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Complex Tool Use In Monkeys

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

The new Diagram is out, and includes one from yours truly.

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Rée on Rorty

Saturday, April 10th, 2004

“Philosophers should stop sulking over transcendental necessities: they should loosen up, try to get out a bit more” (Jonathan Rée, “Strenuous Unbelief”, in London Review of Books, Vol. 20, No. 20, 15 October 1998).

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