Organismic Biology
The term organismalism was coined by the zoologist W. E. Ritter in 1919 to describe the theory that, in his words, "the organism in its totality is as essential to an explana...
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Teleology [addendum]
Teleological explanations are said to be forward looking. We ask why Lauren is walking and are told her purpose, which is to buy ice cream when she gets to the shop. Or we ask why...
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Teleology
The term teleology locates a series of connected philosophical questions. If we grant that there is such a thing as purposive or goal-directed activity (as we must, since, for example, a pol...
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The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, by Michael Gray. Continuum, 736 pages, $40.
Bob Dylan is a senior citizen. That’s right: The voice of a generation, the voice that implored millions to “...
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The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, by Michael Gray. Continuum, 736 pages, $40.
Bob Dylan is a senior citizen. That’s right: The voice of a generation, the voice that implored millions to “st...
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In a way, it goes back to the spirit of the early Edgy Enthusiast columns, which were numbered riffs on cultural obsessions. Playlists, even—dare I say it? —pre-blog blogging. Not real...
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Think of this week's column as a play list for the overeducated, the media-saturated, the culturally jaded: things you may have missed, things you ought not miss, things you still can see and hear....
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Organismic Biology
The Many Masks of Dylan\'d1 But Mostly the Wily Jester
