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This is my academic feed for posting Buddhist philosophy, theoretical neurobiology, and aesthetics.
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A draft syllabus for philosophy of cognitive science. Thoughts, comments, and suggestions appreciated! (The redacted one is a banger paper that I refereed that's not out yet but is accepted and should be out by next spring)
1/13 Daniel Dennett, Three kinds of Intentional Psychology 1/15 Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, More things in heaven and earth 1/20 Amanda Corris, Defining the Environment in Organism–Environment Systems 1/22 Anna Corwin & Cordelia Erickson-Davis, Experiencing presence An interactive model of perception 1/27 Hazel Rose Markus & Shinobu Kitayama, Cultures and Selves: A Cycle of Mutual Constitution 1/29 Qi Wang et al, Culture, Memory, and Narrative Self-Making 2/3 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering 2/5 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering 2/10 Felipe de Brigard, Memory and Remembering 2/12 Nicky Clatyton et al., Can animals recall the past and plan for the future? 2/19 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds 2/24 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds 2/26 Kristin Andrews, How to study animal minds 3/10 G. A. Bradshaw & Allan N. Schore, How Elephants are Opening Doors:Developmental Neuroethology 3/12 [Redacted] 3/17 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness 3/19 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness 3/24 Frédérique de Vignemont, Affective Bodily Awareness 3/26 Anil Seth & Manos Tsakiris, Being a beast machine 3/31 Jennifer Windt, Predictive brains, dreaming selves, sleeping bodies 4/7 Carolina Arruda & Danny Povenelli, Chimpanzees as secret agents 4/9 Elizabeth Pacherie, The Sense of Control and the Sense of Agency 4/14 Chandra Sripada, The atoms of self control 4/16 Asynchronous Activity 4/21 Nick Brancazio, Gender and the senses of agency 4/23 Rebecca Todd & Evan Thompson, The Third Entity 4/28 Hanne De Jaegher, Loving and Knowing
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
Listen: TBD Peter Kivy, Music, Language and Cognition: Which Doesn’t Belong? Jeanette Bicknell, Can Music Convey Semantic Content? A Kantian Approach (8) Listen: Shostakovich, Symphony #10 Gregory Karl & Jenefer Robinson, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony and the Musical Expression of Cognitively Complex Emotions (13) Shostakovich, Symphony #10; Karl & Robinson, continued Listen: Górecki, Symphony #3 Kathleen Higgins, Music's Role in Relation to Phenomenological Aspects of Grief Laura Sizer, The Paradoxical Pleasures of Sad Music (10) Listen: Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans Maître Jennifer Judkins, Silence, Noise, and the Nature of Music Podcast (34 min) Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans Maître; (Optional) Fred Lerdahl, Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems (23) Listen: DJ Finale, Mille Morceau Jenny Judge, Getting into the groove (3400 words) Vijay Iyer, Embodied Mind, Situated Cognition, and Expressive Microtiming in African-American Music (25) Listen: TBD Hanah Kim, A Dual-Process Model of Xunzi’s Philosophy of Music (10) Joel Krueger, Affordances and the musically extended mind (9) Listen: Tenebrae Annex, Poltergeist Carolyn Abbate, Music—Drastic or gnostic (32) Jeremy Hunt, The Horror of Hearing Without Listening (1600 words) Spring Break Listen: Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 with Ginger Baker Andrew Kania, The ontology of rock music (12) Christy Mag Uidhir, Recordings as performances (17) Listen: TBD Jason Miller, What makes heavy metal heavy (1900 words) Ley Cray, TBD (hopefully) Listen: Drug Church, Prude Tim Mahoney, Hardcore music ontologies (14) Antimatter, Christina Michelle of Gouge Away; Antimatter, Patrick Klindon of Drug Church Listen: Laibach, Opus Dei Jason Hanley, The Use of World War II Propaganda in the Music Videos of Ministry and Laibach (17) Easter break Listen: Margo Price, Hard Headed Woman Emmie Malone, Country music and the problem of authenticity (15) Five Scholars Discuss Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” Listen: Kendrick Lamar, Mr Morale & the Big Steppers Tareeq Omar Jalloh, Does the Critical Scrutiny of Drill Constitute an Epistemic Injustice? (17) Five Scholars Discuss “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” asynchronous activity Listen: TBD Elizabeth Cantalamessa, The Rights of the Living Dead: Taylor Swift's Zombie Army Podcast: Sherri Irvin, Forgery, Appropriation, and Taylor's Versions Listen: TBD Robin James, No data, just vibes (or TBD?)
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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New glasses. They’re my first pair with progressive lenses
B sitting in his office wearing a red karnabahar t-shirt with white lettering, and thick rimmed black glasses
September 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Post a meme made by you
A bus with two passengers. One is a sad man, on the side of the bus near a rock wall; above him is the phrase “grasping at a self”. The other is a happy man, on the side of the bus looking out over a beautiful valley; above him is the phrase “attaining anātman”.
August 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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This is a thing that exists
A PERSPECTIVE ON OPIOID ADDICTION Jay Schulkin and Bryce Huebner The image shows a brain shaped cookie cutter with a number of different kinds of pills inside of it
August 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Gestures toward an Intro to Buddhist Philosophy reading list for Fall 2025, thoughts and recommendations welcome!
August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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It’s still not over
Albuquerque, NM Estimated Arrival Thu, Jul 17th 11:53pm Delayed 8 hrs, 59 mins late Scheduled 2:54pm Estimated Departure Fri, Jul 18th 12:27am Delayed 8 hrs, 53 mins late Scheduled 3:34pm
July 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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I just finished this book, and I’ve never felt more seen (most of the particularities are not mine, but I feel a deep resonance with the overall approach)
mariana alessandri, night vision: seeing ourselves through dark moods
June 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I always hoped I’d get a chance to teach this one, but we don’t have a required grad-level Metaphysics class any more
ONTOLOGY WITHOUT BORDERS JODY AZZOUNI
June 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I’ve been thinking about this book a lot recently. For no real reason
GREEN IS THE NEW RED: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, by WILL POTTER
June 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I’m struggling to get my narrative structure to click for my aesthetics class in the fall, and I’m not sure these are the right readings. But this is what I’m currently thinking about doing. Suggestions and recommendations very welcome!
28 Aug Intro - No reading 2 Sept No class Monday Schedule 4 Sept Jennifer Robinson Aesthetic emotions (16 +) 9 Sept Carolyn Korsmeyer Delichtful, delicious, disgusting (8) 11 Sept Arindam Chakrabarti Refining the repulsive (15+) 16 Sept Madeline Martin-Seaver Change is Central to Perfume Aesthetics (11) 18 Sept Martha Tafalla Smell and Anosmia in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Gardens (13) 23 Sept Shen-yi Liao Bittersweet Food (15) 25 Sept Alex King Tace Bell and the Paradox of Ironic Appreciation (5) Amanda Knox Bonded With Her Cellmates Through Food (4) 30 Sept A.W. Eaton Robust Immoralism (10) 2 Oct Adriana Clavel-Vazquez Sugar and Spice, and Everything Nice (10) 7 Oct Arthur Danto The Artworld (14 +) 9 Oct Adrian Piper Critical Hegemony and Aesthetic Acculturation (12) 14 Oct Nick Riggle Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces (15) 16 Oct Andrea Baldini Street Art: A Reply to Riggle Nick Riggle Using the Street for Art: A Reply to Baldini (9) 21 Oct Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (20 +) 23 Oct Susan Sontag America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly (17) 28 Oct Rosemarie Garland-Thomson The politics of staring (19) 30 Oct Ayandastood & Mia Mingus, Moving toward ugliness (Apple, Spotify; 67 min) 4 Nov Theodor Adorno Perennial Fashion: Jazz (12) 6 Nov Ingrid Monson The Problem With White Hipness (27) 11 Nov Vijay Iyer Improvisation, Temporality and Embodied Experience (14) 13 Nov Emmie Malone Two concepts of groove (9) 18 Nov Yuriko Saito Everyday Aesthetics (8) 20 Nov Sheri Irvin The Pervasiveness of the Aesthetic in Ordinary Experience (16+) 25 Nov Asynchronous activity 27 Nov No class 2 Dec David Howes Hyperesthesia, or, The Sensual Logic of Late Capitalism (19) 4 Dec E.M. Dadlez Ink, Art, & Expression (12) 9 Dec Brandon Polite & Aaron Meskin Why Record Shops Matter Aesthetically (10)
June 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Did you see what my trip is?
Map of the US, with the Amtrak lines highlights from DC to Chicago, to LA, to Portland, back to Chicago, and back to DC
May 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Three new books to read!
Adam Becker, More Everything Forever: Al Overlords, Space Empires, And Silicon Valley’s Crusade To Control The Fate Of Humanity Robin James, The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, And Biopolitics Mariana Alessandri, Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods
May 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I’m really wondering how my massive summer Amtrak journey is going to work out…
A map of the US with the Amtrak routes highlighted from DC to Chicago, Chicago to LA, LA to Portland, Portland to Chicago, and Chicago to DC
May 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The venue…
Red Eagle Campground, Blackfeet Nation, Montana Location for Fire in the Mountains
May 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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This is my favorite passage from any philosophy text. It’s Val Plumwood on the experience of being death rolled by a saltwater crocodile
The course and intensity of terminal thought patterns in near-death experiences can tell us much about our frameworks of subjectivity. A subjectively-centred framework capable of sustaining action and purpose, must, I think, view the world "from the inside" , structured so as to sustain the concept of an invincible, or at least a continuing, self; we remake the world in that way as actionable, investing it with meaning, reconceiving it as sane, survivable, amenable to hope and resolution. The lack of fit between this subject-centred version, in which one's own death is unimaginable, and an "out-side" version of the world comes into play in extreme moments. In its final, frantic attempts to protect itself from the knowledge of vulnerability and impending death that threatens the normal, subject-centred frame-work, the mind can instantaneously fabricate terminal doubt of extravagant, Cartesian proportions: this is not really happening, this is a nightmare, from which I will soon awake. This desperate delusion split apart as I hit the water. In that flash, when my consciousness had to know the bitter certainty of its end, I glimpsed the world for the first time "from the outside" , as no longer my world, as raw necessity, an unrecognisably bleak order which would go on without me, indifferent to my will and struggle, to my life as to my death.
April 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Space is, in fact, the place…
Sun Ra Arkestra
March 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I’m rereading this now, and haven’t re-read it for years, but it’s mind boggling that this was published in 1993, and that people didn’t listen.
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature Val Plumwood
March 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I am no Orwell stan, though I do think he captured something important in this review. Here’s the rest of the redacted quote if anyone is wondering
I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power-till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter—I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him.
March 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I'm Captain Haddock...
An image of Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Snowy. Snowy is drinking out of a mug of beer. Captain Haddock says "what a week, huh?". Tintin replies "Captain, it's only Monday" (meme edited to say monday instead of wednesday)
February 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This just arrived and I’m super stoked to read it!
INDIGENOUS CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON Traditional Ecological Knowledge EDITED BY Lara A. Jacobs The image presents a painting of a super stylized night sky with the sun, the moon, sunflowers, and a white silhouette of a bird (maybe a crow, but I’m not sure)
February 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Reposting with alt text
IT seems that the tragic predicament of the aged is that, having no further desire for their bodies, they have little left to do in life but concentrate upon the exacting and meaningless problem of living in them. Paradoxically, at no time of life is existence so intensely physical as in old age. Youth, in the careless working of its bodily perfection, may well attend to things of the spirit and mind: but senility, whose every corporal faculty is decaying and working arbitrarily, awaits on the body as all in all. Incessant organic events and misadventures, occupying the vigilant mind to the exclusion of all else, are observed, prophesied, and medicinally forestalled and miti-gated. In the majority of cases it is not with beauty and seemly abstractions, but with pills and digestive expedients, that the superannuated await release in death.
February 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Posting this for @daophos.bsky.social … a vegan cheese that kicks serious ass
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February 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I just got home from seeing Nite Bjuti play. They were fantastic. If you don’t know them, they play a kind of avant garde jazz with an Afro-Caribbean foundation. The set tonight was improvised but inspired by this album nitebjuti-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/nite-b...
Nite Bjuti, with a person with a shaved head on drums, a persons on stand up bass, and a person in a sparkly dress on vocals.
February 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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👆🏻 With alt text
This computer analogy of the Daoist view of intuition or spontaneous action gives us a way to illuminate the contrast in the theory of mind in the two traditions. The Western concept of mind and of the computer is of the information processor. The CPU takes in information. The processor exists relative to a cognitive stuff, information. The unit stores information in memory cells, operates on the information, and reports the result, information output. This reflects the Western focus on conscious thought, deliberation, and choice as cognitive. The Chinese view of heart-mind focuses on guiding behavior. The mind receives reality-feedback inputs (qing) and processes them all at once (paralleling processing). The output is not a computational result stored in some memory cell or reported out as information. The output is an action. When we have learned to do anything like second nature, we constantly adjust our performance to myriad clues in the environment. We do not mediate the fine adjustment of motor skills by conscious choice. We act, it seems, directly in response to the external environment without CPU involvement.
January 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM