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High today in KW: 27. Dewpoint then: 17. High dewpoint: 21.
High today, here: 29. Dewpoint then: 18. High dewpoint: 21.
So, here's the kind of thing I mean about the messiness of fronts--last ten hourly dewpoints in K-W today: 21, 19, 17, 19, 16, 13, 14, 14, 14, 12.
Managed just a bit more Prado today. An odd thing struck me yesterday: there is not a single footnote in this book. Everything that might have been a footnote is in the text. There's a lot of meandering in the text, most of which, in today's bit, was criticism of Searle's idea of "collective intentions", which reminds me that another major problem with this book seems to be that it seems to mix up a technical philosophical sense of "intention", derived from the phenomenological tradition, in which it refers to the directedness of consciousness (which is the kind of intentionality that the "Chinese Room" is all about, and that Searle wrote a book on), and the ordinary sense of meaning to do something (which Prado mostly talks about).
An interesting thing about the book is that Prado often quotes personal correspondence with Searle. Philosophy, with Prado, really was about interaction, the face-to-face moment. Maybe that has something to do with why he understands Foucault's power so well as action on action.
High today, here: 29. Dewpoint then: 18. High dewpoint: 21.
So, here's the kind of thing I mean about the messiness of fronts--last ten hourly dewpoints in K-W today: 21, 19, 17, 19, 16, 13, 14, 14, 14, 12.
Managed just a bit more Prado today. An odd thing struck me yesterday: there is not a single footnote in this book. Everything that might have been a footnote is in the text. There's a lot of meandering in the text, most of which, in today's bit, was criticism of Searle's idea of "collective intentions", which reminds me that another major problem with this book seems to be that it seems to mix up a technical philosophical sense of "intention", derived from the phenomenological tradition, in which it refers to the directedness of consciousness (which is the kind of intentionality that the "Chinese Room" is all about, and that Searle wrote a book on), and the ordinary sense of meaning to do something (which Prado mostly talks about).
An interesting thing about the book is that Prado often quotes personal correspondence with Searle. Philosophy, with Prado, really was about interaction, the face-to-face moment. Maybe that has something to do with why he understands Foucault's power so well as action on action.
