Nietzsche Note – sob1989

I am very pleased to announce the availability of Nietzsche Source.

http://www.nietzschesource.org

About Nietzsche Source

Nietzsche Source is a web site devoted to the publication of scholarly content on the work and life of Friedrich Nietzsche. The contents of the site and its internet addresses are stable and can be freely consulted and used for scholarly purposes. Two editions are currently being published in Nietzsche Source: the digital version of the standard critical edition [http://www.nietzschesource.org/documentation/en/eKGWB.html] and the facsimile edition of the entire Nietzsche estate [http://www.nietzschesource.org/documentation/en/DFGA.html].

The genetic editions of two of Nietzsche’s works The Wanderer and his Shadow and Dawn, including the reproduction of all related manuscripts, are in preparation. The website is managed by the Nietzsche Source Organization (formerly, the Association HyperNietzsche), a non-profit organisation hosted at the École normale supérieure in Paris. Its main purpose is to continue work on the edition, commentary and interpretation of Nietzsche’s work.

For more information, see http://www.nietzschesource.org

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Christine McCarthy Madsen

‘Unscientific America’: A Review – bob

Author Chris Mooney (of “Storm World” fame) and fellow “Intersection” blogger, scientist, and writer Sheril Kirshenbaum have written an extraordinary, if rather sobering book entitled ‘Unscientific America’. What I found most refreshing about the book is that it not only isolates the history behind, and source of, the problem in question—the pervasiveness and dangerousness of scientific illiteracy in modern society–but it offers viable solutions. This book is a must read for anybody who cares about science, and the growing disconnect between the scientific and popular cultures (the problem of the so-called “Two Cultures” first discussed by C.P. Snow).

Read the full review here.

And then read another take on the book.

Homeopathic as answer to health care costs – taersker

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Two from NDPR – bob

Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication

Rachel Cohon, Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication, Oxford University Press, 2008, 285pp., $75.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199268443.

Reviewed by Christine Swanton, University of Auckland

Source

The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic

G. R. F. Ferrari (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic, Cambridge UP, 2007, 533pp., $30.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780521548427.

Reviewed by Rachel Singpurwalla, University of Maryland, College Park

Source

Sea Level Rise: It’s Worse Than We Thought

FOR a few minutes David Holland forgets about his work and screams like a kid on a roller coaster. The small helicopter he’s riding in is slaloming between towering cliffs of ice – the sheer sides of gigantic icebergs that had calved off Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier. “It was like in a James Bond movie,” Holland says afterwards. “It’s the most exciting thing I have ever done.”

Jakobshavn has doubled its speed in the past 15 years, draining increasing amounts of ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the ocean, and Holland, an oceanographer at New York University, has been trying to find out why. Scientists like him are more than a little astonished at the rate at which our planet’s frozen frontiers seem to be responding to global warming. The crucial question, though, is what will happen over the next few decades and centuries.

More…

Contest – bob

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in exactly six words. His response was: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Give it a try!

The Science of Networks

Just how closely linked are we? Is it the case that sob1989 and Tildeb are closer than expected? Perhaps only “six degrees of separation”?

This month’s eSkeptic has a review of Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life.

Read the review here.

Asking Anti-Abortion Demonstrators an Important Question – bob

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‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’ – bob

‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons

Rebecca Kukla and Mark Lance, ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons, Harvard UP, 2009, 239pp., $49.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780674031470.

Reviewed by Patricia Hanna, University of Utah

In this interesting and provocative book, Kukla and Lance (K&L) challenge two fundamental assumptions of 20th century philosophy:

1. that semantics of language is relevant to fundamental philosophical issues, and

2. that declarative assertion is the paradigmatic instance of linguistic acts.

 

Read the review here.

Dennis Kucinich Sets Dr. David Gratzer Straight – bob

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Oldest Bible now on line – bob

Silliness – sob1989

     I have always wished that my computer
      would be as easy to use as my telephone.
      My wish has come true.

     I no longer know how to use my telephone.

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Israeli police are looking for a man named Joseph,
  wanted for looting in the port city of Haifa. The
  suspect is described as the son of an ex-nun from
  Barcelona and a German father. He was a former
  flutist and worked occasionally as a farmer.

Reading texts, people, and other artifacts – bob

Daniel C. Dennett

Center for Cognitive Studies

Tufts University

Judging a poem is like judging a pudding or a machine. One demands that it work. It is only because an artifact works that we infer the intention of an artificer.  -W. Wimsatt and M. Beardsley

I want to explore four different exercises of interpretation:

(1) the interpretation of texts (or hermeneutics),

(2) the interpretation of people (otherwise known as “attribution” psychology, or cognitive or intentional psychology),

(3) the interpretation of other artifacts (which I shall call artifact hermeneutics),

(4) the interpretation of organism design in evolutionary biology–the controversial interpretive activity known as adaptationism.

Read on?

July’s Film – bob

By request; darkfabric will start the discussion on July 20th.