Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:26:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: That Pete <that_pete-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: H in the Media (Economist)


Correction: The article is now available online at
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1875125

There is no other H content in the article though.

--- That Pete <that_pete-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> In an obit for Bernard Williams:
> 
> WHEN talking of philosophy, Bernard Williams liked to drop in remarks that
> were
> not meant to be repeated. Here are some of them. Counselling a historian of
> philosophy to take the unusual step of eschewing all mention of Bishop
> Berkeley, he likened Berkeley to a drunken Irishman who reels into a pub
> insisting that 'tis all a load of rubbish about this matter nonsense.
> Speaking of an implausible conference on the applications of Heidegger's
> philosophy, he described the attendees as a bunch of Nazi orthodontists,
> goose-stepping across the rooftops. And discussing central-state materialism
> (a version of the idea that the mind is identical to the brain), he gleefully
> quoted an unnamed wit as saying that Australia was not just the place where
> this theory was invented, but also the only place where it is true.
> 
> From today's Economist. 
> I can't link to it because it is unfortunately only available to subscribers.
> 
> Cheers,
> Pete
> 
> 
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