Good Saturday morning! Chilly but sunny out there. Let’s dive right into my inbox this morning. Color commentary provided by an amateur–me. From Hillsdale College, whose online courses I like and endorse. Dear Ms. Bernstein, Too often, we view the study of philosophy as a special privilege for a scholarly few—too complicated, jargon-filled, and impractical
One last post to wrap up our travels up north a few weeks ago. This one is all about Mr. Big Food in his world. As I mentioned, he’d been invited to give the annual lecture at the Center for Philosophy of Science. First day he met with the fellows and they discussed some of
Who remembers The Farm Circle? We met every other Friday afternoon July through early August, 2020. It was an attempt at “normal” life when people were up to here with the abnormal. We held it in the Apartment and conformed to all the dictates. It was a lot of fun. This was the last one,
We did it! Mr. Big Food, two friends and colleagues, and I put on an in-person conference at a hotel on the Gulf of Mexico. There were hugs & handshakes as folk saw fit according to their comfort levels. There were excellent talks. Socializing, even! The person who’d been most timid about participating said she
Remember when People used to come out to the Farm and have supper, sit around the picnic table, spend the night? Remember when Mr. Big Food would get up early, make coffee and whoop up a great Farm breakfast? Remember when People would hang out and go for hikes into the Piney Woods or the
Funny you asked. Last evening, after I’d scheduled the Screwtape quote posts and Mr. Big Food had spent the afternoon cooking and puttering around the kitchen, we watched The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I thought I would be tired of Lewis by then, but I wasn’t so chatted a bit about him. Mr. Big
you will appreciate how hilariously funny this is. Mr. Big Food and I have a chapter coming out in a book titled, Dissenting Philosophers. Allan, one of the editors, was gently insistent that I have an author blurb. So what else was I supposed to say? “She is married with three daughters, one grandson, two
Filed under “when circumstances and good manners require that one attend a philosophy talk one would never in a million years otherwise attend.” Neurons have dispositional properties. Who knew?
That white stuff you see is snow, folks! And before the snow was freezing rain. 🙂 We stepped out to go to breakfast this morning and turned right around and ordered to go from the hotel restaurant. Fortunately, we have taken to traveling with out handy dandy mini electric kettle. And our own coffee, a
Today is March 31. It is the last day featuring the crappy old book, Anniversaries and Holiday: A Calendar of Days and How to Observe them, as Crappy Old Book of the Month. Appropriately, today is the anniversary of René Descartes’ birth in 1596 and of Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen’s in 1811. Descartes is, of course,
including this one. By my head count, there were 47 1/2. (Olive eats a lot but she just doesn’t put it down the way the guys do.) I made a couple of things this morning. Brandied fruit Beer potato salad By about 3pm were ready. Daughter C had made menus. We weren’t quite sure about
You should see how clear the sky is right now! I’m taking that as a sign from God. But just to be on the safe side– because a healthy dose of skepticism is always warranted when dealing with the philosophical– I think we’ll serve inside. (See now why I wanted to wear that cite little
I, for one, am going to readjust what I’d planned to wear the next few days. At times like these, it’s important to consider footwear. Let’s imagine a blustery day in late April. The tornado sirens sound. You and 30-50 others are in a lecture hall at That School Up North. You must quickly and calmly
That’s Jesse, out on the boat. See them? We had company this weekend. (That’s Daughter C spreading straw in the background; Brian worked.) People worked. See? And were rewarded. See? This photo surprised me! I had forgotten that Mr. Bow Tie had taken my camera. See? This is A Leland’s bean-corn-melon-squash garden. Some beans are
So we went to a lecture at State this afternoon. And by “we” I mean all of the usual suspects. It was a great lecture! Mr. Big Food introduced Professor Prinz to a standing room only crowd. Here I must interject logistical detail. Referring to the seating chart (above) you will note that the front
Wait! What? Where are you headed? This is a pretty amazing story! Missy was outside and I realized she was barking which is something she hardly ever does unless… “Oh! Marica! That’s just not true. I don’t need my Dear Friend Rocky to tell me when to bark! I bark at the birds all of the
What we most need to know about any man is surely this: whether he is good or bad. To be sure, we seldom put the question so crudely. Indeed we often affect a scorn for mere goodness, persuading ourselves that we are more concerned with a man’s breeding, his intellectual vigor, his artistic skill or
The neglect of relevant distinctions, when these are important for clear thinking or adequate statement, is ambiguity. R.W. Sellars, The Essentials of Logic (The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1917) And what causes ambiguity? “The basic cause is mental” whatever that means. Only he who is willing o take the trouble to distinguish things and ideas
My little weekly county newspaper has gone behind a paywall. This cracks me up. $26 per year. SUBSCRIBE NOW! DON’T MISS A THING! As a subscriber to the print version I have automatic access– just as soon as Swishu gets my request and emails me a passwords. I’m waiting. Now on to the philosophers.There’s a fellow
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