Now that it is officially Summer and the semester has finally come to a close, I figured it would be appropriate to finally update this blog. In addition to constructing a fence, new bookcases (with the help of my father Leroy) and some raised beds in the backyard, I have been doing a good bit …
Intersections of Art and Science at Harvard and Amherst
I recently made it to Boston for a quick visit while on Spring break. In addition to finding some real gems in some local bookshops (Commonwealth Books deserves mention), I had a chance to visit Harvard's Natural History Museum and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. On the Natural History side, "Microbial Life: A …
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A Great Talk on C.S. Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce is my favorite philosopher. His interests are capacious, his texts are dense and bristling with insights, and he is one of the few philosophers whose thinking about questions of language, reasoning, and the imagination can contribute to a deeper appreciation of art as a rigorous and necessary practice of inquiry. While many …