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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

The Music That Gets The Deepest Inside Our Heads

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: ‘Dangerous’: Top FBI Official Had Close Relationship With Dozens of Journos, Accepted Tickets to White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The FBI’s top national security official had dozens of improper meetings with journalists and accepted tickets from one journalist to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, interactions that FBI officials said were a “no-no” and “dangerous.”

Michael Steinbach, who served as an FBI executive assistant director, failed to report the gifts on his federal financial disclosures, according to an inspector general report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. He met regularly from 2014 until his abrupt retirement in February 2017 with 7 reporters and had contact with 21 others. His interactions with journalists overlapped with his work on major counterterrorism cases and Crossfire Hurricane, the ill-fated investigation into collusion between the 2016 Donald Trump campaign and Russia.

 

The Music That Gets The Deepest Inside Our Heads

Yes, it's videogame music. "When we hear this music outside gameplay, it can prove unusually moving. The first time I caught the London Video Game Orchestra in concert," one writer says, it felt like a hymn: "nostalgic and weirdly rapturous." - BBC


How to Find Public Google Docs (and Slides, Forms, Sheets, and Drawings too)

MakeUseOf: “You can literally find anything online; that is, if you know how to search and where to look. For instance, you can more easily search for a particular photo by using the right query and searching via Google Images. Similarly, you can easily find public Google Docs, Slides, Forms, Drawings, and Sheets using some easy but Advanced Search operations and tools. In this article, we’ll show you some simple tricks to help you find public Google Drive files including Slides, Forms, Sheets, and Drawings…”


 Recode: “…The reasons the return to the office isn’t working out are numerous. Bosses and employees have different understandings of what the office is for, and after more than two years of working remotely, everyone has developed their own varied expectations about how best to spend their time. As more and more knowledge workers return to the office, their experience at work — their ability to focus, their stress levels, their level of satisfaction at work — has deteriorated. That’s a liability for their employers, as the rates of job openings and quits are near record highs for professional and business services, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. 


There are, however, ways to make the return to the office better, but those will require some deep soul-searching about why employers want employees in the office and when they should let it go…Further complicating things is that, while the main reason hybrid workers cite for wanting to go into the office is to see colleagues, they also don’t want to be told when to go in, according to Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford professor who, along with other academics, has been conducting a large, ongoing study of remote workers called WFH Research…”


  1. Normative Theories of Rational Choice: Rivals to Expected Utilityby Lara Buchak.

Revised: 

  1. Nāgārjuna Jan Christoph Westerhoff.
  2. Algebraic Propositional Logic by Ramon Jansana.
  3. Peirce’s Deductive Logic by Sun-Joo Shin.
  4. Origen by Mark J. Edwards.
  5. Johann Gottfried von Herder by Michael Forster.
  6. Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher by Michael Forster.
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche by R. Lanier Anderson.
  8. Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt.
  9. Leibniz’s Influence on Kant by Catherine Wilson.
  10. William Whewell by Laura J. Snyder.
  11. Simplicity by Alan Baker.
  12. The Theory of Two Truths in Indiaby Sonam Thakchoe.

IEP     ∅           

NDPR     

  1. The Non-Existence of the Real Worldby Jane Westerjoff is reviewed by Sean M. Smith.
  2. A Variety of Causes by Pauld Noordhof is reviewed by J. Dimitri Gallow.
  3. Prejudice: A Study in Non-Ideal Epistemology by Endre Begby is reviewed by Robin McKenna.
  4. Naming and Indexicality by Gregory Bochner is reviewed by Tadeusz Ciecierski.
  5. Materialism from Hobbes to Lockeby Stewart Duncan is reviewed by Nicholas Jolley.

1000-Word Philosophy     

  1. G.E.M. Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” by Daniel Weltman.
  2. Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas”: Would You Walk Away? By Spencer Case.
  3. Philosophy of Law: An Overviewby Mark Satta.

Project Vox     ∅ 

Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media   

  1. The Internet is Not What You Think it Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning by Justin E. H. Smith is reviewed by Joshua Judd Porter at Los Angeles Review of Books and by William Davies at The New Statesman.
  2. Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein is reviewed by Anil Gomes at The Guardian
  3. The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Philosophy by Andy West is reviewed by Fernanda Dahlstrom at the Sydney Review of Books.

Compiled by Michael Glawson

BONUS: Arguments for God but in reverse