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Bookcase Credibility (@BCredibility) tweeted at 5:46 PM on Tue, Jul 21, 2020: Credibility Crooners: Tom Wright v Francis Collins. Religion and science have rarely clashed as dramatically as they do here. We have seen Tom's majestic book roost before and though Francis puts up a fierce fight he is doomed. He goes down playing, like the band on the Titanic. https://t.co/FFhBhdUfHo (https://twitter.com/BCredibility/status/1285707667386904579?s=02) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download?s=13

Emerson's evolutionary religion

“In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life.” Emerson’s great call for religions to evolve, reject the “monster” of superstition and embrace the natural “miracle” of existence, delivered on this date in 1838. https://t.co/bUlG0GH4UQ

— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER) July 15, 2020

LISTEN

Dining (not drinking) with Willy James

“William James cannot save your life”-well, that depends (as we pragmatists say) on what you mean by “save” @JohnKaag @John_Banville
https://t.co/m1QKlGi4xe via @Lit_Review

— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER) July 2, 2020

“Robert Silvers, editor of nyrb, once asked Isaiah Berlin who his ideal dinner guest would be. Without hesitation Berlin exclaimed, ‘William James!’” Mine too, but too bad he didn’t drink (not that he needed an additional exciter of the Yes function). https://t.co/m1QKlGi4xe

— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER) July 2, 2020

Opening Day!

The first day of class is always exciting, even if it's a mini-semester in July and even if it's "remote"... but remote doesn't have to mean distant (except geographically). Looking forward to Zooming with you this evening, MALA 6050 "Evolution in America" students.

Our morning dogwalk was delayed by the rain, so I took the opportunity to make this little video out back in my Little House (shed, shack, cabin, "man cave") while we waited for the weather to clear. File this under "Introductions" (and "Opening Day" of course).

W.V.O. Quine

Robert Talisse

@RobertTalisse

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Quine’s autobiography is so eerily detached from its subject matter, one wonders what possessed him to write it. Do we know the backstory? Did he lose a bet or something?

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Michael Lynch

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It is so epically badly written I’ve always wondered why the editor let it be published. And why Quine couldn’t see it himself. I wonder if he just never read an autobiography or memoir?

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Robert Talisse

@RobertTalisse

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@MisakCheryl

He claims somewhere that he finds poetry so emotionally moving that early in life he resigned simply to stop reading it. So, maybe.

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Phil Oliver

@OSOPHER

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Are we quite sure that Quine was from this planet? I spent a few awkward moments in a faculty kitchen with him and Sellars when I was an undergrad, and couldn't confirm it then.

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Robert Talisse

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Of that pair, surely Sellars was the odder. But their being together in close quarters might have amplified each’s strangeness. Quine was also apparently a fantastic banjo player.