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Slipping Off the Atheist Dude Ranch?: Strict Naturalism and Atheist Philosopher Thomas Nagel
Before philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote this in the most current edition of the Times Literary Supplement about Stephen Meyer’s new book (ticking off a lot of atheists), he wrote this, in the New … more →
Prometheus Unbound
Stuck between two things
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backoffscience wrote 3 days ago: Philosophy is the battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language. PI 10 … more →
On Throwing Stones
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deontologistics wrote 1 week ago: For those of you unaware, there’s been another slight fracas recently over Graham Harman … more →
Aquinas' Alternative to Cartesian Dualism
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jmatthanbrown wrote 1 week ago: Since the rise and dominance of metaphysical naturalism in both science and philosophy, many academi … more →
Slipping Off the Atheist Dude Ranch?: Strict Naturalism and Atheist Philosopher Thomas Nagel
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santitafarella wrote 2 weeks ago: Before philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote this in the most current edition of the Times Literary Supplem … more →
Reductionism and Holism: Ontological (Part 2)
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markrisjord wrote 2 weeks ago: The story so far… In Varieites of Reductionism: Three Varieties (Part 1), I discussed the problem of … more →
A False Choice: Reductionism or Dualism
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jeremylent wrote 4 weeks ago: Twenty-four hundred years ago, Plato fired the first shot across the bow in the debate that – to thi … more →
Genes are Lumpy!
stephenwhitt wrote 4 weeks ago: I love sobering thoughts. Here’s one. Around the year 1900, Charles Darwin’s (and AR Wal … more →
Articles of faith
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backoffscience wrote 1 month ago: The New Atheists or scientists, as I like to call them, don’t just have a problem with organis … more →
Reductionism and Holism: Three Varieties (Part 1)
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markrisjord wrote 1 month ago: “Reductionism” is something of a dirty word in nursing and other health sciences. To cal … more →
Veganism and the Environment
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Vernon Tava wrote 1 month ago: There are many reasons for choosing the vegan way of life: Ethical, spiritual, environmental, and ph … more →
Finding Reality: Science, Knowledge, and the "World Out There"
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seburke wrote 1 month ago: October 3rd, 2009 Descartes began his metaphysical analysis from a standpoint of universal doubt, an … more →
He said, she said.
alexsdavies wrote 1 month ago: This week the Guardian published an article questioning the veracity of UK sex trafficking figures. … more →
Why fMRI is unsatisfying - a neuronal perspective
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Peter B. Reiner wrote 1 month ago: Each year when the Society for Neuroscience Meeting rolls around, all of the major journals devote e … more →
I Was A Philosopher, Damn It!
damntheirlies wrote 2 months ago: I’m going to place my philosophical naïvety and ignorance on the line. You may or may not be aware ( … more →
Ah, Gray Sunflower, Forget Me Not! The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Moscow UFO Mothership/Cloud
santitafarella wrote 2 months ago: When looking at the above video today, I thought of Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra … more →
Reductionism, the Ontological Mystery, and Joni Mitchell
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santitafarella wrote 2 months ago: What do we really know about clouds and rainbows, let alone love and free will? To speak of them, sc … more →
The Left's cult of intelligence
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sanityinjection wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been meaning to write about the high value bordering on worship that liberals place on th … more →
Societal Reductionism: One Size Fits All
A Free Spirit wrote 2 months ago: If movies have so eclipsed plays (and novels) in this age, I would suppose that movies would become … more →
Not everything that counts
backoffscience wrote 2 months ago: What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all imp … more →
