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If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…
To a large degree, Kuhn’s Structure is an attempt to deliver on the descriptive task of epistemology as Reichenbach conceived…
I concur to a certain extent. I also scored very low on the writing section. Back then, GRE was required…
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…
Fascinating! Thank you, I will look at this. I had studied metaphysics under Timothy Williamson before I started my PhD…
This is exactly the approach I take in Knowledge and its Place in Nature, Oxford University Press, 2002
The great studio musician/pianist Nicky Hopkins was the core of this short-lived band, which produce one album, from which this nice song comes:
Feel free to link to other Sweet Thursday songs, or other favorite Nicky Hopkins performances with other bands.
For '70s and '80s record store frequenters, Sweet Thursday was a ubiquitous used/cut-out bin encounter. I had no idea how lovely it was.
Query: I always assumed Nicky Hopkins was on the Stones' Sticky Fingers, per my own copy of the album (zipper intact!) and this: https://www.discogs.com/release/451342-The-Rolling-Sones-Sticky-Fingers. But this YouTube video of "Sway," which I want to recommend as a Hopkins highlight, says it's Ian Stewart:
That's not correct, is it?
Consensus is that it's Stewart on Brown Sugar, Hopkins on Sway.
Here's Nicky Hopkins alone, in 1991 (hat-tip to Christian Madden https://christianmadden.substack.com/)
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