Just what is the point of having a Booker-associated prize for the greatest living novelist?
It’s always seemed a little perplexing to me why it is such a big deal who wins these awards, since most of us know nothing about the judging panel, and presumably we normally think a recommendation or award is notable [...]
It’s not easy to track down the early works of Steve Reich, but I’ve just stumbled across a fantastic recording of a live performance of four early works (“Four Organs”,”My Name Is”,”Piano Phase” and “Phase Patterns”) from the opening of the University Museum at the University of California, Berkeley, on 7 November 1970. The quality [...]
The new look hereabouts is courtesy of a few minor hacks to the new release of Wordpress. Also new is the link across to my Audioscrobbler page on the right there. In Foobar2000 I’ve finally found an audio player that does everything I want (except play the stupidly proprietary RAM and ASX protocols, which I [...]
(Apropos the post over at Fake Barn Country).
The most popular way to attempt to analyse the asymmetry of causation without stipulating that it goes with the direction of time is by using the principle of the common cause, a probabilistic relation the formulation of which is due to Hans Reichenbach in his The Direction of [...]
Do I think that it would be a great tragedy if the form of life of a Midwestern farmer disappeared? Well, I don’t want to sound un-American, but no, I don’t.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah
If you like that state of being dissatisfied with everything you’ve said or that’s said to you, you’re probably hooked already, so philosophy has chosen you.
—Stanley Cavell
(No updates here for a while because I’ve been teaching).
(The Rorty paper is out and seems weirdly ambivalent, even resigned…).