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PhilipGraham Well, THAT was a rewarding search. It turns out Rufus Harley recorded a bagpipes jazz version of “Eight Miles High,” one of my favorite songs by...
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Friday, March 5, 2021
PhilipGraham I know! There’s jazz violin (which I love), jazz harp (Alice Coltrane and more), jazz harmonica (which we now all know is but a small one quarter...
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Friday, March 5, 2021
Bill Benzon Thanks for this, Philip. Yes, I heard Lawrence Welk in my youth. Now that I think of it, it was schizy experience. The music itself seemed pretty...
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Thursday, March 4, 2021
Chris Horner Scientific truth is itself part of a set of procedures - as you describe - that provide a warrant or justification for claims (as pragmatists say)....
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Mike W Wouldn't this create massive levels of micro-plastic pollution?
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S Herb I agree with this demystification of 'free will' . I am still of the opinion that the traditional association of free will with religious decisions...
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Michael Liss I hesitate to reply....
Down the Rabbit Hole With Schubert and Hawley · Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Ofinfinitejest . You will never read a better or more insightful philosophical essay than this one. His concern about why we may well not want to create artificial...
Daniel C. Dennett: Herding Cats and Free Will Inflation · Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Brooks Riley And a few hours after I posted that comment above, an ad for sheet music appeared on an internet article I was reading. . . (cue music for The...
Down the Rabbit Hole With Schubert and Hawley · Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Brooks Riley Kitty Carlisle was the Merry Widow in a 1943 Broadway production. A marvelous English-language version. As a child, I used to lip-synch in front of...
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Michael Liss The WSJ is reporting this morning that Alphabet, parent company of Google, said it plans next year to stop using or investing in tracking technologies...
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Michael Liss Brooks, to your point, the algorithm now seems to think I want a concealed carry holster. Unless it it has a deeper insight into my needs than my...
Down the Rabbit Hole With Schubert and Hawley · Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Michael Liss Kitty Carlisle was a panelist on To Tell The Truth. Also an occasional opera singer, Broadway and film actress and worked in government. I don't...
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Jochen Szangolies Very interesting argument. I like the 'tools' picture---I have occasionally thought in terms of interfaces: our attempts at conceptualizing the world...
Pragmatism as philosophical tool design · Wednesday, March 3, 2021
PhilipGraham Thank you, Dave. A real compliment, as you have two of the best ears out there.
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Sally Benzon Excellent question. Hospital administrators and insurance companies have much more data to draw from in their decisions about hospital management,...
Down the Rabbit Hole With Schubert and Hawley · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Bill Benzon I’ve been listening to these clips again because, well, she’s just so damn good. One thing I noticed is that, not only does she employ a range...
Sukiyaki and beyond: Hiromi Uehara, music, war and peace, Chick Corea, and others · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Michael Liss Passing this one on to close friend in Baltimore. He won't agree with the politics, but he'll enjoy the local color.
Epilog: Peace and Horror · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
David Jauss Another beaut, Philip!
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Jim Harrison George Soros' theory of market behavior amounts to an application of Girard's central concept of mimetic rivalry to high finance.
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Sonia Warczincela Thank you so much for these beautiful translations! Just stumbled upon them while searching for more of Majeed Amjad's work!
3quarksdaily: Translations from Urdu: Three Poems by Majeed Amjad · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
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Why we need Virtue Ethics · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Michael Liss Thanks for reading, JonJ. Your point about "amplifiers" is a good one, but let me reframe it a bit. Let's say a future Administration with a...
Down the Rabbit Hole With Schubert and Hawley · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
S Herb I also wonder whether some of the comparative success of the East Asian societies in dealing with the pandemic has come from the virtue-based...
Why we need Virtue Ethics · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
PhilipGraham Thank you! I had a difficult time deciding what music to include, since there’s oceans of great accordion music out there, and I only had a...
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
PhilipGraham Sad! Think of the great rock band Los Lobos—having an accordion never slowed them down. Love that band.
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
JonJ What companies like Facebook and Twitter do is to provide us with means of disseminating our words and ideas with vastly more efficiency than any...
Down the Rabbit Hole With Schubert and Hawley · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
spinelessbooks The Foremen were a project of protest singer Roy Zimmerman, alive and well, and hopefully finding something to protest these days. The Foremen...
Confessions of an Accordion Addict · Tuesday, March 2, 2021
PhilipGraham A fine essay about the process of detoxification we are all going through, in one way or another. Thanks.
Epilog: Peace and Horror · Tuesday, March 2, 2021

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