Philosophics

3–5 minutes I drove to Hyannis this afternoon and saw these trees lining the roadside in front of Margaritaville.

1–2 minutes I commenced reading another LLM book recommendation, Piranesi.

1–2 minutes I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman is neither a self-defence of heteronormativity nor a salacious lesbian romp.

These are additional assets related to this Substack post on Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World, the chapter on Quantum Theory.

3–4 minutes I was chatting with a French woman, but I only know bits of French history.

I was inspired to write about affordances on Substack this afternoon.

I prompted Gemini to render this poster this afternoon.

As an economist, I used to instruct my Econ 101 students to consider economics as another lens to add to their inventory, but as a philosopher my advice gets somewhat altered.

1–2 minutes I posted this article on Substack: The Philosophers Are Here.

1–2 minutes I discovered a WordPress widget and decided to share my reading progress, but it appears to show the last few books I’ve finished rather than my active list.

3–5 minutes NB: I have been drafting an essay on “understanding understanding”, so the IAI article this is based on was perfectly salient.

Job, Finland, and the Invention of the Good Life Every year, apparently, somebody wins happiness.

9–13 minutes Salience, attention, valence and the construction of disposition Today I live about 90 minutes out of Boston by car on a good day – and 2 hours on a return trip because I live in Cape Cod, a tourist area, so I tend to have to compete with tra…

5–7 minutes I have been developing my French, so I rely on several primary resources.