Owen Barfield – Note to self – must read some Owen Barfield – for starters …The Owen Barfield WebsiteOwen Barfield and C S Lewis [Quote] Most notable of his works are perhaps History in English Words, Poetic Diction, Saving the Appearances, Unancestral Voice, and Worlds Apart. Barfield also wrote a fairy tale, The Silver Trumpet, [...]
Entries from September 2003
Owen Barfield
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September 22, 2003 at 11:32pm
by Psybertron
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Collecting Rorty Links
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September 22, 2003 at 10:29pm
by Psybertron
Wild Orchids and Trotsky – readable witty autobiographical essay (blogged earlier) A Talent for Bricolage – Joshua Knobe’s interview with Rorty Richard Rorty’s homepage at Stanford – limited site, but comprehensive bibliography Terry Eagleton on Rorty – DeLong’s review of Illusions of Postmodernism Google’s directory listing for Rorty Web Companion to Pragmatism includes interviews with [...]
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Hemingway read Northrop
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September 22, 2003 at 12:21am
by Psybertron
The library in his house “Finca Vigia” in Cuba includes F S C Northrop’s The Meeting of East and West. This image from the site by Hilary Justice.Northrop is the red one in the middle(The brown one to the left of it is The Good Soldier Schweik by Hasek)
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Pirsig ZMM Journey Route Map Updated
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September 21, 2003 at 10:15pm
by Psybertron
Pirsig ZMM Journey Route Map Updated – Thanks to a great deal of information from Henry Gurr I’ve been able to correct and update the ZMM route details as part of a general update of the Pirsig Pages and the biographical timeline. Henry’s site has many more photographs and location details than I can link [...]
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Reading List Update
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September 21, 2003 at 1:22pm
by Psybertron
I’ve taken the frontcover shots of the books I’m reading or have recently read off the side-bar – just too much slow graphical content for the home-page. I must construct a separate bibliography page soon. Currently I’m still working slowly through F S C Northrop’s The Meeting of East and West – full of good [...]
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Science and the Humanities
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September 21, 2003 at 10:58am
by Psybertron
Science and the Humanities – A plea from Robert M Young, Professor of Psychoanalysis at Sheffield Uni, and co-editor of NIBBS – Human Nature Review. [via David Morey on the MoQ Discuss Forum] In conclusion he writes …. [Quote] In my opinion psychoanalysis, seen as a discipline in the humanities, is centrally complementary to biological [...]
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Quality is what works.
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September 20, 2003 at 11:48am
by Psybertron
Quality = Fitness = Good = Zen TaoQuality is what worksMoQ = PragmatismQED
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Zen Happiness
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September 20, 2003 at 11:23am
by Psybertron
Zen Happiness – I linked before to this page by Francis Heylighen at VUB, and noticed it referred to his 1992 paper on Maslow. As you know I’ve been observing parallels between Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and motivations, and Pirsig‘s Metaphysics of Quality (MoQ), and Heylighen’s evolutionary cybernetic philosophy seems to account for both. Apart [...]
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We’re in Porto Heli
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September 10, 2003 at 6:41pm
by Psybertron
On holiday, sailing in Greece. Met John Flynn and son David. John works for EMIL (ex EEEL) ExxonMobil in New Malden UK. A long term customer of mine at Foster Wheeler, Reading, UK, down at Esso Fawley. He regularly works with Richard Carroll, someone I employed during my 22 years at FW. Small world. Also [...]
Good reviews from NIBBS
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September 3, 2003 at 1:56pm
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Good reviews from NIBBS – Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley [Guardian / John Turney]Natural-Born Cybogs by Andy Clark [Metpsychology / Neil Levy]Quest: The essence of humanity by Charles Pasternak [New Scientist / Brian Fagan] [Quote] Even plants have quests – for the sunlight that fuels their growth. Humans, of course, have enhanced searching [...]
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Ontologies and Tools
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September 3, 2003 at 9:38am
by Psybertron
Some great posts recently from Seb, on semantic web ontologies and on tools to link different feeds and forms of information with a consistent metaphor. Particularly liked …[Semantic Web Ontologies][W3C Philosophy ?][Streams, Pools, Mountains & Lakes metaphor] Intrigued by Seb’s eclectic list of “dead” people, which includes Abraham Maslow, as well as Curt Cobain and [...]
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Dysteleology
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September 1, 2003 at 5:52pm
by Psybertron
Dysteleology – A word I’ve been looking for – courtesy of Paul Kelly and Jean-Luc Delatre. The MoQites keep accusing me (in a roundabout way) of Nihilism. Dysteleological seems closer.
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Philosophy of Technology Reading List
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September 1, 2003 at 5:32pm
by Psybertron
Philosophy of Technology Reading List – From the UIUC (Uni Illinois at Urbana) – eight years old, but interesting nevertheless. (Marx, Wiener, Heidegger, Baudrillard, Herrigel, Pirsig, Buckie-Fuller, Foucault, Penrose, Theroux, to name a few)
