Ep. 11: Roderick Long interviews KELLY DEAN JOLLEY
Channel: Agoric Cafe
Date: 22/09/2020

Roderick Long chats with philosopher Kelly Jolley about Jane Austen and J. L. Austin, the veil of perception, Ohio land swindles, the tyranny of nouns, screwball comedies, anti-psychologism, apophatic theology, the arctic perils of SUNY Oswego, the philosophic uses of poetry, Wittgenstein vs. Augustine, 18th-century literary nanotechnology, real love in the spy life, Howard Hawks as an Aristotelean ethicist, the problem of other minds, the Typic of practical reason, Frege’s three principles, religious language and the ineffability of logic, feeling William James’s ‘but’, and Lewis White Beck philosophising with a hammer.

Some viewers of this channel may be dismayed that this episode contains no libertarian, anarchist, or Rand-related content.  To them, Roderick says:  dear god, there’s more to life than that stuff.  

(Though anyone insistent on drawing connections to Rand can likely find a basis for them in the sections of the interview about direct perceptual realism and/or Hawksian eudaimonism.)  

(Incidentally, to any Rand fans reading this, Roderick highly recommends Gerald Mast’s book on Hawks:
https://www.amazon.com/Howard-Hawks-Storyteller-Gerald-Mast/dp/0195030915/?tag=praxeologynet-20
He’s pretty sure you’ll like it.)


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The full list of links is too long to fit in the description. So below are just the links to Kelly Jolley’s works and sites. For the links to other items mentioned in the discussion, see: 

http://praxeology.net/agoric-cafe-ep11-links.htm#otherlinks

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Kelly Dean Jolley links:  


Kelly Dean Jolley’s THE CONCEPT ‘HORSE’ PARADOX AND WITTGENSTEINIAN CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS:  A PROLEGOMENON TO PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS:
https://www.amazon.com/Concept-Paradox-Wittgensteinian-Conceptual-Investigations-dp-1138259683/dp/1138259683/?tag=praxeologynet-20 

Kelly Dean Jolley’s STONY LONESOME:  POEMS:
https://www.amazon.com/Stony-Lonesome-Kelly-Dean-Jolley/dp/098577035X/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Kelly Dean Jolley’s CHUCK:  REAL LOVE IN THE SPY LIFE:  
https://kellydeanjolley.com/the-chuck-book/

Kelly Dean Jolley’s (ed.) WITTGENSTEIN: KEY CONCEPTS:
https://www.amazon.com/Wittgenstein-Concepts-Kelly-Dean-Jolley/dp/1844651894/?tag=praxeologynet-20

[Bonus: Derek McDougall’s review of WITTGENSTEIN: KEY CONCEPTS:
https://www.britishwittgensteinsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/witt_key_concepts_jolley_ed_crit_notice.pdf    
(Roderick especially likes pp. 4, 17-19, & 31-32 of this review, for some reason.)]

Kelly Dean Jolley’s podcast “The Sound of Thinking”:
https://kellydeanjolley.com/the-sound-of-thinking-podcast/

Kelly Dean Jolley’s blog “Quantum Est In Rebus Inane”:
https://kellydeanjolley.com/

Bonus:  Kelly Dean Jolley’s Remarks at a Memorial Panel for Lewis White Beck (1998):
https://kellydeanjolley.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/beck-panel-memorial-remarks.pdf


Links to other items mentioned in the discussion:

http://praxeology.net/agoric-cafe-ep11-links.htm#otherlinks