31 July

Born in 1860 – Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist.

Above: Detail of California Lilac (Ceanothus thyrsiflorus), 1935

Also, born in 1932, American philosopher and academic John Searle.

We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.