A review of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s book Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of the Social Sciences, by way of a brief consideration of T.S. Eliot’s Notes Toward the Definition of Culture.
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For both authors the theory of the categories was where their theories of the social bottomed out, though in different ways.
Thus if we want to get to the bottom of what they had in mind with the idea of the social, that’s where we need to go.
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Have you seen John Levi Martin's response to a recent review of the basic situation of sociology? No, not that one! This one: thesilverlining3.substack.co…
Here, JLM responds to my review of his magisterial book, "The True, The Good, and the Beautiful." Stay tuned for my response!
Could a language machine become a thinking machine? An essay on Vygotsky on speech and thought, with cameos by James, Rousseau, and Weber.
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that arises when you talk for an extended period of time with the same person, and nobody else needs to understand what you say. In thinking, that person is myself, and we have an understanding of how each other thinks, so we don’t need to say very much to get it across.
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Proud to report that there is now a Public Thinking minor at @UChicago. A milestone for the program and something we hope will inspire more creative thinking at universities about the relationship between humanistic education and public discourse
Towards a critique of the judgment of machine taste.
On the sociology of machine judgment.
New work by Martin Lukk.
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Last week was the first week of classes. As usual, it is an exciting time. Lecture halls are full and the hallways are buzzing. Everybody is gearing up for a year of stimulating experiences organized around sparking the life of the mind
On "experiential learning" and what kind of experiences make a university worth its while.
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Great piece on how the *real* experiential learning should be…the classroom. thesilverlining3.substack.co…
From Mead and Collins to artificial social intelligence. On the social chain of thought . With a brief tour through some of my mind’s internalized conversations
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A great conversation with David Rutledge about my forthcoming book:
Hegel: The philosopher with the (one) big idea abc.net.au/listen/programs/p… via @ABCaustralia
