I was reshelving a book in my office and noticed a volume on the shelf that I hadn't picked up in a couple of years-- a collection of selections from the work of Gaston Bachelard, On Poetic Imagination and Reverie (edited by Collette Gaudin). I remembered being disappointed when I first got the book that it was a collection of snippets rather than something more substantial. I pulled the book off the...
One great blooming, buzzing confusion — that was how William James, a 19th-century psychologist, described how the world would look to a newborn baby. But over the past decades science has revealed that from birth we are armed with the basic building blocks of language, mathematics and music that we need to make sense of what we see and hear.
Greta and I did our undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, or as a commonly-sold T-shirt on campus put it, "where fun goes to die." To say that Chicago didn't emphasize academics over a social life is to deny that people literally lived in the library (a full-scale campsite was found behind one of the stairwells in the stacks; students had been living there for months). It's...
Blotter siren -- T police arrested two men on unrelated counts of indecent assault and battery yesterday. William Carlyle, a 52-year-old Boston man, was nabbed at Copley Station after allegedly grabbing a woman's buttocks on the Green Line platform at Park Station. And William James was picked up for allegedly grabbing a woman's buttocks on a Red Line platform at Quincy Center Station last June. [MBTA...
The One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn't Win -- New York Magazine A pretty amusing review of a new Ayn Rand biography. Some lines I liked: "...her temperament could have neutered an ox at 40 paces" “Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive,” she once wrote, “and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.” As a child, she was solitary, opinionated, possessive, and...
NYTimes | ARNE DUNCAN, the secretary of education, recently called for sweeping changes to the way we select and train teachers. He’s right. If we really want good schools, we need to create a critical mass of great teachers. And if we want smart, passionate people to become these great educators, we have to attract them with excellent programs and train them properly in the substance and practice...
King of pain Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker has been called the best film yet made about the war in Iraq, and one can see where they’re coming from--it’s crude yet coherent, understated yet intense, and it knows that first and foremost, before you even deal with the politics of war, you portray its head rush, the ‘drug’ mentioned in the film’s opening titles....
"The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." -- William James (1842-1910)
In a footnote to ‘the Meaning of Truth’ (published 100 years ago), William James suggested a thought experiment: Suppose what appears to be a loving young woman is really an ‘automatic sweetheart (merely programmed, as we would now say). ‘Would anyone regard her as a full equivalent'’ asks James, and robustly answers ‘Certainly not’ in full expectation of...
From Tranel, Adolphs, and collaborators , a fascinating piece of work reported in the International Journal of Psychology (check out the other articles in this issue, which has the theme ' Central and peripheral nervous system interactions: From mind to brain to body' Here is the abstract from their paper, followed by one table: Does feeling an emotion require changes in autonomic responses, as William...
Happiness Insurance Quotes and Flowers Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. -- Napoleon Hill I don’t sit around thinking that I’d like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. -- Lauren Bacall Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -- Mildred Barthel There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about...
The One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn’t Win : atencio : William James once argued that every philosophic system sets out to conceal, first of all, the philosopher’s own temperament: that pre-rational bundle of preferences that urges him to hop on whatever logic-train seems to be already heading in his general direction. This creates, as James put it, “a certain insincerity in our philosophic...
"The Hurt Locker" has made a lot of noise in the movie world when it first came out and people started labeling it as one of the greatest war films ever made. This was enough to get us hyped up as we wanted to pinpoint exactly what makes it different from the tons of war movies we have seen before. Is it good because of its effects and action sequences? Was it labeled as excellent and powerful...
10.24.09 – International Day of Climate Action – Toronto, ON + Victoria, BC CO2 Toaster Widget is a collaborative project by Michael McGee, CO2Now.org, Franke James, FrankeJames.com, and William James, The James Gang. CO2 Toaster Widget by Franke James A chicken in every pot? Nope — a toaster. For 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action we’re giving everyone in [...]...
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