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From the blog: What I'm up to now. Listen to my first conversation with Achim Rothe (2022-06-16). Listen to my second conversation with Achim Rothe (2022-06-22). Read my announcement for my discussion with Sam Biagetti. Listen to my conversation with Sam Biagetti (2022-07-02). Please schedule a conversation with me (limited time only!). Or consider recording a clip to send to this podcast (click the +Message button).

Mermillod et al.: The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma (2013) Erik Hoel: The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021) Carhart-Harris et al.: The Entropic Brain (2014) Von Neumann: The Computer and the Brain (1957) Shakespeare: Sonnet 122

R. J. Hollingdale's 1994 translation of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human (1878) My piece on the avant-garde Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Boyce: Why Some Children Are Orchids and Others Are Dandelions (2019) A. C. Graham: Disputers of the Tao (1989) Quanta: Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms (2020) Shakespeare: Sonnet 95

In this episode I give Kuhn's 1973 lecture "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973). There is a PDF of the lecture here. The book he discusses is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I found the clip of Kuhn speaking on a closely related topic in this clip from 1995.

W. B. Yeats: All Things Can Tempt Me. Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962 book). Thomas Kuhn: "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973 lecture) PDF.

Viktor Shklovsky and Russian Formalism (wikipedia), and Defamiliarization/ostrananie. My Twitter thread on Shklovsky. Alexandra Berlina's Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader. LA Review of Books: Both a Fish and an Ichthyologist. Professor Caryl Emerson. "Art as Device" (1917/1919. Sometimes translated as "Art as Technique"): PDF, including commentary on translation. T. S. Eliot: "Little Gidding" (1942).

Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process (1939). Richard Wrangham: Two types of aggression in human evolution (2018). Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970). My thread on Thomas Kuhn. Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Stanford Encyclopedia: Scientific Revolutions (2017). Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel (1913).

The Tao Te Ching, translated by Derek Lin and Stephen Addiss/Stanley Lombardo A. C. Graham: Chuang-tzǔ: The Inner Chapters Harold D. Roth: A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu John Keats: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"

John McPhee: Annals of the Former World (1998). Emma Darwin: This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin (2019). Indrė Žliobaitė: On the nature of time information in the fossil record (2020). Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (2nd edition, 1859). Hart Crane: The Air Plant (1932). Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff (1913). I host salons at The Interintellect; my next one will be on collaboration and networked thought on 2021-04-28. Thanks for listening and I'd love to hear from you. You can find me on twitter, on clubhouse, or at my website. My blog is here. Thanks again to Patricia, Isabela, and JP :)