Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song
The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body. Delia sang fearlessly. She threw back her head and nailed free-flying notes like a marksman nails skeet. She sang …
Large Selection of Quine’s Correspondence Now Available Online
A large selection of W. V. O. Quine’s correspondence—4495 pages of communication between Quine and 153 other philosophers—has been made online available at the Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism (VALEP), a digital humanities initiative based …
First Kiss: An Animated Ode to One of Life’s Great Felicities
[embedded content] “Like a bee that settles on the fragrant pistils of a flower, and sips in the nectar for honey, so should you sip in the nectar from between the lips of your love,” …
I’m Getting Money Back From My Student Loan Payments — But It May Delay My Forgiveness – CNET
Once your student loan relief goes through, you’re free to use your refund as you see fit. Just make sure you find out if you’ll owe state taxes on your forgiven debt, so you can …
Sing, Don’t Scream: D.H. Lawrence on the Strength of Sensitivity
Lawrence observes how this quiet tenacity of nature, which is the opposite of violence, is mirrored in our greatest spiritual leaders and our highest achievements of civilization. In a passage nothing less than countercultural amid …
Kenneth Sayre (1928-2022)
Kenneth Sayre worked on a wide range of areas in philosophy, including cybernetics, artificial intelligence, information theory, philosophy of mind, environmental philosophy, epistemology, and Plato. He was one of the first philosophers actively involved in …
Artist Nina Katchadourian’s Otherworldly Plants Made of Trash and Tenderness
Indeed, radiating from the surreal beauty is a haunting ecological elegy — it is impossible to behold these homages to nature’s creations without the awareness that they are created from the selfsame human materials constellating …
Best Internet Providers in Los Angeles: Cable, Fiber and 5G – CNET
Yes. Although fiber internet connections are currently not as prevalent in Los Angeles as cable internet or DSL, you can find fiber internet throughout Los Angeles County. Top fiber internet providers in Los Angeles include …
To φ Or Not To φ (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics)
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Organizing for Answers
The supposition is not unusual.* In his “Why Isn’t There More Progress in Philosophy?” David Chalmers (NYU) writes: We might also learn more about what we think of the aim of philosophy through this exercise. A …