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Monthly Archives June 2007

Gone Fishin’

(in the afternoon, of course)
My buddy Roger over at Limited Inc has an interesting series of posts going concerning Wisdom and Happiness. Last week I wrote up a fairly lengthy response, which I was going to post here; then, on Sunday and Monday, both my internet connection and my harddrive crashed, in incidents that […]

Posted 27 June 2007 † Alan Cook § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

and panic fear

Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.
Graham Greene

Mad Melancholic Feminista is the blog of a philosophy professor at Gettysburg College who posts under the nom de plume Aspazia. Which is […]

Posted 22 June 2007 † Alan Cook § Psychopharmacology ‡ Comments (5)

Noted and quoted

Agree or disagree, this is eloquent:
What makes the American left silly? Things that in a vacuum should be logical impossibilities are frighteningly common in lefty political scenes. The word “oppression” escaping, for any reason, the mouths of kids whose parents are paying 20 grand for them to go to private colleges. Academics in Priuses using […]

Posted 14 June 2007 † Alan Cook § The political § Quotations ‡ Comments (0)

RIP

Richard Rorty, 1931-2007.

Posted 11 June 2007 † Alan Cook § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

Griffiths review, concluded

(previous installment here)
The concluding chapter of OBM is quite brief. Griffiths summarizes his findings thus:
It seems, then, that in looking at the Indian Buddhist debates surrounding the attainment of cessation the following conclusions can be drawn about the basic Buddhist view of the relations between the mental and the physical. First, the mental and […]

Posted 07 June 2007 † Alan Cook § Metaphysics § Buddhism § Philosophy of Mind ‡ Comments (1)

More Mindless-ness

Here, after much too long, is the long-promised continuation of my review of Paul Griffiths’ On Being Mindless: Buddhist Meditation and the Mind-Body Problem. No, this isn’t the complete review; I’ve drafted a conclusion, but need to consult the text again on a couple of points. (That’s one difficulty involved in writing about […]

Posted 02 June 2007 † Alan Cook § Buddhism § Philosophy of Mind ‡ Comments (2)