Media
"On the representation of proximal shape," The Brains Blog, 13 April 2021.
Podcast discussion
about inverted
spectra on Reductio:
Adventures in Ideas, recorded in September 2019.
Comments on the epistemic power of photographs, Wired, 16
November 2017.
Commentary
on 1969 controversy involving Angela
Davis, San Diego Magazine, 12 September 2017.
Interview on
color and other topics with 3:16
Magazine, 20 March 2016.
Panel moderator,
"Imagination,Fiction, and Philosophy",
Filmatic Festival, San
Diego, 3 May 2015.
"Is compulsion a form of
suffering?", Value
of Suffering Blog," 10 February 2015.
"Seeing Red: The World in
Color", Philosophy
Talk (syndicated radio program, hosted by Ken Taylor and John
Perry), 4 May 2014.
Panel participant, "Can
They Get a Search Warrant For Your Thoughts?" (on ethical,
legal, and practical implications of
brain imaging), HuffPost Live, 31 July 2013.
"On the
limitations of blind
tasting," World of Fine
Wine 41: 74-81, September 2013. (Reflections on the
drawbacks of blind tasting.)
Family
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A now out of date picture of my son, Aaron Cohen. |
Music
I have a parallel life as a working jazz piano player.
A few snippets::
- solo at a jam session in February 2022.
- my tune, "Persian Cat", played at a trio gig with Adrian Holtz on bass and Joshua Frontiero on drums in July 2021.
I try to keep this list of upcoming performances current. Stop by at the next one and tell me you found it from my webpage!.
Photography
Recent photographic results can be found on my
flickr
photostream
.
.
Some pictures of my brain; you might
not care, but I'm rather fond of it.
Food
Increasingly out of date guide to
eating in San Diego (prepared in advance of the 2012 Philosophy of Science Association
meeting held in town).
Other
I also enjoy trying to keep up with other riders on
a bike:
For reasons discussed in Allin Cottrell's (hyperbolically named,
but persuasive)
article, "Word
Processors: Stupid and Inefficient", I write more or less
everything using LaTeX
(rather than a proprietary WYSIWYG word processor from Microsoft,
for example). You should, too. LaTeX is a great engine for
typesetting, and the output has always looked great; when set up
with GNU Emacs and
AUC TeX, it is
also a beautiful thing to use.
Make your computer fight AIDS while you're not using
it: 
Feed the hungry:
