changing preferences
A number of things are said to happen when you become a parent. One of these is the curious event of changing preferences: an unprecedented, radical and rather immediate switch in interests and...
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The Nightly Book Club reads Delillo
This book (point omega, by Don Delillo) will stand out in my memory for one reason in particular: it’s the first book we finished together. Over the last few nights, I’ve been trying to lull Benjamin...
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A unique set of influences
In one of the early notebooks in which I used to put the kind of thought, rants and musing that nowadays makes it into this blogish existence I made some sort of remark about how to overcome the...
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The baby critic
Through the looking glass, okay? A few months back, to the great amusement of late night talkshows (US) and topical comedy quiz participiants (UK), a group of scientists lodged a complaint against a...
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Moral Babies
The last few years have seen a number of different approaches to morality become trendy and arouse media interest. Evolutionary approaches, primatological, cognitive science, neuroscience. Next in...
View ArticleA rare venture into politics
I have little or no business pretending to be initiated about politics, but here is what seems to me to be at issue in this latest election of ours: A party with a shady past (and present)...
View ArticleParenting and the end of ethics
So ethics month(s) just ended. On Thursday, I sent around 50 critically acclaimed essays on applied, normative and meta-ethics back to their authors. Leaving me pondering the proposition that there is...
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The Science of Sleep
Background A few years back when, driving my supervisors to despair, I suddenly became interested in everything, I did some semi-serious reading about sleep. Sleep, it turned out, is poorly...
View ArticleMorality begins
Developmental issues in general have, for obvious reasons, been much on my mind lately. It strikes me, as it struck Alison Gopnik thus causing the book the philosophical baby to be written, as strange...
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Hi Blog, it’s me David
Most blogs are abandoned within a year, according to statistics that I just made up. Due to distractions, lack of readers or time, or just the failure to make blogging part of the unforced everyday...
View Articlechanging preferences
A number of things are said to happen when you become a parent. One of these is the curious event of changing preferences: an unprecedented, radical and rather immediate switch in interests and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Nightly Book Club reads Delillo
This book (point omega, by Don Delillo) will stand out in my memory for one reason in particular: it’s the first book we finished together. Over the last few nights, I’ve been trying to lull Benjamin...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A unique set of influences
In one of the early notebooks in which I used to put the kind of thought, rants and musing that nowadays makes it into this blogish existence I made some sort of remark about how to overcome the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The baby critic
Through the looking glass, okay? A few months back, to the great amusement of late night talkshows (US) and topical comedy quiz participiants (UK), a group of scientists lodged a complaint against a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moral Babies
The last few years have seen a number of different approaches to morality become trendy and arouse media interest. Evolutionary approaches, primatological, cognitive science, neuroscience. Next in...
View ArticleA rare venture into politics
I have little or no business pretending to be initiated about politics, but here is what seems to me to be at issue in this latest election of ours: A party with a shady past (and present)...
View ArticleParenting and the end of ethics
So ethics month(s) just ended. On Thursday, I sent around 50 critically acclaimed essays on applied, normative and meta-ethics back to their authors. Leaving me pondering the proposition that there is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Science of Sleep
Background A few years back when, driving my supervisors to despair, I suddenly became interested in everything, I did some semi-serious reading about sleep. Sleep, it turned out, is poorly...
View ArticleMorality begins
Developmental issues in general have, for obvious reasons, been much on my mind lately. It strikes me, as it struck Alison Gopnik thus causing the book the philosophical baby to be written, as strange...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hi Blog, it’s me David
Most blogs are abandoned within a year, according to statistics that I just made up. Due to distractions, lack of readers or time, or just the failure to make blogging part of the unforced everyday...
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