[lit-ideas] Re: It's not the heat, it's the heat

Julie wrote:

It's so nice to be vindicated. And in tandem w/ someone holding an opposing position. 

Isn't it, though!

Robert -- could you use your Talent to vaildate the various factions in the ME?

Kant said that one had a duty to maximize one's talents but when it comes to the Middle East, I have no relevant ones.

And where did you learn so much about physiology? You're supposed to be a philosopher who doesn't believe in such mundane things.

Being a philosopher doesn't mean that one ceases to know a few scattered facts about the real world; in fact, any philosophical view that seems seriously at odds with our strongest ordinary intuitions about it has a lot of explaining to do, as Berkeley realized. I don't speak as a philosopher ('What do you, as a philosopher, think aboutâ?'is a question to which I have no answer, even though I, in plain clothes, may have thoughts about it.

Well, forget personal identity. I was going to say that I know an amateurish bit about exercise physiology, to which questions of transfers of heat and energy are relevant, and I know that because I was for some years a distance runner and a coach of distance runners. My interest in what heat does to people is now focused on what heat does to older people, being not only an older person myself but one concerned with their long term care.

By the way, with respect to the Kruger-Kirschenbaum dialogue, it should be noted that older people, because of skin changes, have fewer sweat glands and therefore sweat less, thus putting them even more at risk during hot spells.

Robert Paul
reed.edu
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