{"id":475,"date":"2026-03-12T16:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:59:57","slug":"the-pyramid-and-the-black-box-peter-caws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/2026\/03\/the-pyramid-and-the-black-box-peter-caws\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pyramid and the Black Box &#8211; Peter Caws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This lecture was given at a symposium held at the Library of Congress on April 2-3 1965, called <em>The Little Magazine and Contemporary Literature<\/em>, when my father was an officer of the Carnegie Corporation. It was published by the Modern Language Association in 1965. The collection doesn&#8217;t fit the scope of <a href=\"https:\/\/philpeople.org\/profiles\/peter-caws\">PhilPapers<\/a> so I&#8217;m posting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Caws-The_Pyramid_and_the_Black_Box.pdf\">the PDF<\/a> here. It does touch on educational philosophy and describes a Carnegie idea to buy bulk subscriptions of literary magazines and distribute them to public schools (which didn&#8217;t come to pass, alas).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture was given at a symposium held at the Library of Congress on April 2-3 1965, called The Little Magazine and Contemporary Literature, when my father was an officer of the Carnegie Corporation. It was published by the Modern Language Association in 1965. The collection doesn&#8217;t fit the scope of PhilPapers so I&#8217;m posting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-caws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}