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Resolution

Gonna try to do better at this blogging thing during the month of February than I have in January. You know the only refrain: brief but regular.
Colleen Keating is keeping track of posts in the blogosphere that offer advice for aspiring professional philosophers. Should be worth keeping an eye on.
Nobel Prize winner (and […]

Posted 02 February 2007 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (2)

Folsom Prison Linkdump

What that’s about: 38 years ago today, Johnny Cash recorded his classic live album.

Bill Vallicella addresses the question “What good is philosophy?”, and gets in a well-aimed lick in the bargain:
It is good in that it conduces to intellectual humility, to an appreciation of our actual predicament in this life, which is one of profound […]

Posted 14 January 2007 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (1)

First of October Linkdump

This paper by Colleen Keating on stage view presentism (.pdf format) deserves a lot more attention than I can devote to it right now.
A nice plug for my alma mater by a Washington Post sports writer, of all people.
Kevin Kim at Big Hominid posts the following quiz:
Look at these two comments:
1. Islam has […]

Posted 01 October 2006 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (1)

This is not a 9/11 post

At Flapping Mouths”, there’s a discussion of “eyes-open vs. eyes-closed” question that always arises when meditators from various traditions get together.

BTW, the anecdote/koan that gives FM its name is worth repeating in its entirety:
Four Zen monks were meditating in a monastery. All of a sudden the prayer flag on the roof started flapping. The younger […]

Posted 11 September 2006 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (0)

Labor Day Roundup

There’s an interesting discussion on ethical relativism going on over at atopian.org. Said blog is written by Alex Gregory, who describes himself as “a philosophy student at a UK university,” and says that he “tend[s] to write on a combination of ethics and political philosophy, from a consequentialist perspective.” The discussion begins with […]

Posted 04 September 2006 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (0)

Saturday morning garage sale

Like a lot of people, I bookmark a lot of sites when I’m browsing the Net, intending to go back to them for some purpose or other which I soon forget. Also like a lot of people, I’m not very good about organizing my bookmarks into folders, so new ones tend to just get […]

Posted 26 August 2006 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (0)

New Moon Day

The always colorful Susan Blackmore has a long list of her publications on her website, many of them available online. Among then is “Zen into Science,” orginally Dr. Blackmore’s contribution to a volume called Neurotheology. Blackmore begins by offering a sort of a definition of that vastly overused term, “spirituality”:
What is this yearning […]

Posted 23 August 2006 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (0)

August 21st Roundup

Lotta good stuff out there today.
Found a couple of good sources on the Abhidhamma. One’s an online book by Nina Van Gorkom called Abhidhamma in Daily Life. The other is an online course (in 90 lessons!), originally given by John D. Hughes of the Buddhist Discussion Centre in Australia, and published in that […]

Posted 21 August 2006 † Alan Cook § ‡ Comments (1)