Monthly Archive: December, 2011

December 6, 2011

Tuesday Titles: New Books from Joseph Stiglitz and Titles on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Piano

The Philosopher’s Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano Francois Noudelmann The Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadists, the Military and the People–The Struggle for Control Yunas Samad The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time William K. Tabb When More Is Less:...

December 6, 2011

Neurogastronomy: Gordon Shepherd Discusses "Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters"

Gordon Shepherd, author of Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, was recently interviewed in Salon. In the interview, Gordon Shepherd explains among other things why we overeat, how to do the nose-pinch test, how to get...

December 6, 2011

Hans Georg-Moeller: Niklas Luhmann, the Radical and Occupy Wall Street

The following is a post by Hans Georg-Moeller, author of The Radical Luhmann: Unfortunately, the radicalism of Niklas Luhmann’s theory of society has often been ignored, misunderstood, or watered down. This is unfortunate because the theory is probably the most...

December 4, 2011

Neurogastronomy and Why Smell Matters for the Food We Love

“Rather than being weak and vestigial, human smell appears to be quite powerful. Some have even suggested that humans and their primate relatives are “supersmellers” among ani­mals. It is time, therefore, for a new appreciation of this much maligned and...

December 2, 2011

Alan Wallace: "A True Revolution in the Mind Science"

We conclude our week’s feature on B. Alan Wallace’s Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, with an excerpt from his epilogue in which he discusses the potential for a true revolution in...

December 2, 2011

University Press Roundup

Our semi-regular roundup of recent blog posts and features from other university presses: Yale University Press runs an excerpt from Melissa V. Harris Perry’s Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. Why Don’t American Cities Burn? Michael B....

December 1, 2011

Santiago Zabala: A Philosophy for the Occupy Wall Street Movement

“Hermeneutics, then, is one of the few philosophies that reflects the pluralism of our postmodern societies because, like truly democratic procedures, it includes and allows structural changes to take place every time citizens demand them. Ignoring these demands for change...