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Friday funnies: trolley problem from the passengers’ perspective
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In Defense of Thersites
That is the new title of my revised paper (formerly titled “Homer’s Hellenic Humanism“); it’s posted in full below the fold:
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Wikipedia Wednesday: Meiji Restoration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration The Meiji era (“enlightened rule”) was officially declared by Japan’s 122nd emperor, Meiji, on this day (23 October) in 1868. It was during Meiji’s reign, which lasted until 30 July 1912, that Japan was transformed from a poor and secluded feudal … Continue reading
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Twitter Tuesday: Homer and A.I. Workshop
I just signed up to attend this virtual workshop on “Homer and Artificial Intelligence”!
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Citing Jorge Luis Borges
That is the title of this intriguing paper by Wes Henricksen, a law professor at Barry University in my neck of the woods: Orlando, Florida. His paper (see also here), which was just published in the British Journal of American … Continue reading
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Junkyard art
Via Kottke: “Cássio Vasconcellos took aerial photos of scrapyards and arranged the junked cars, planes, trains, and other objects into dense photographic collages.”
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My interpretation of the hawk/nightingale fable
In my previous post, I presented two standard interpretations of the fable of the hawk and the nightingale in Hesiod’s 8th-century B.C. poem Works and Days. Today, I will offer my own novel interpretation of this fable. Specifically, what if … Continue reading
Two interpretations of the hawk-nightingale fable
I introduced the fable of the hawk and the nightingale in my previous post. Today, I will ask, What is the moral of Hesiod’s beautiful bird fable? Alas, there is no holy grail, no single meaning or interpretation that everyone … Continue reading
Wikipedia Wednesday: the hawk and the nightingale
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hawk_and_the_Nightingale A fable is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral, and one of the earliest recorded fables in the Western literary canon, if not the first, is the fable of the hawk and the nightingale … Continue reading
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prior probability 