David Sloan Wilson reports. Anthony BiglanB.F. Skinnerbehaviorismblank slateDavid Sloan WilsonDennis EmbryEvolutionary PsychologyJohn ToobyLeda CosmidesSteven C. Hayessteven pinker
Sam Harris speaks with Thomas Metzinger about the scientific and experiential understanding of consciousness. Jump to 26:32 for the consciousness discussion proper — the first 26 minutes are for the most part a well-trodden exercise in mutual virtue-signalling. Discussion of the phenomenology of intuition . . . now that is interesting. Artificial intelligenceconsciousnessmeditationneurosciencephilosophy mindphilosophy of…
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Here is the ever thoughtful Ed Feser on the death of Walter Becker. Ed is one of those commentators with a knack of being able to excavate and articulate ideas without going off on overly obscure or whimsical tangents. [T]he typical Steely Dan song represents some character type, usually hapless, disreputable, or marginal . .…
What with the regressive mind set of the so-called alt-left and the alt-right (the Siamese twins of authoritarianism and thuggery), discussion of the rule of law, free speech and liberality is more salient than ever. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: find out about our new series on #ClassicalLiberalism https://t.co/g8H5UWT33R @M_W_Q pic.twitter.com/FSRkq5afVQ — Palgrave Economics (@PalgraveEcon) September 7,…
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For us, consciousness of self is no different from consciousness of anything else. A self here is an individual self yet also a self among other selves. C2 selves vary from moment to moment from self-grandiosity to self-refusal, from being the infinite great self in the world to being the worst and the least self—because…
The very excellent Efriam Podoksik has a timely paper published in The Journal of Political Philosophy: Volume 25, Number 3, 2017, pp. 303–323. Challenging this dichotomy I suggested a tripartite scheme where nation as a self-sufficient high-culture community is the centre, whereas civic community and ethnic group are its peripheral mutations. Contrary to the common…
W. Keith Campbell and Brandon Weiss in Quillette. We argue that the decision to ban therapeutic use of psychedelics was a tragic mistake. Brandon WeissconsciousnessdrugsneurosciencePhilosophy of mindPsychologyReligionspiritualityW. Keith Campbell
The case of Stephen Greenblatt by Bruce Bawer in the New Criterion. H/T Stephen Hicks. Cultural Studies is an intellectual and scholarly disaster. And its spiritual father is Stephen Greenblatt. Bruce Bawercultural marxismLiteratureLucretiusMarxismphilosophical literaturepost modernismregressive leftshakespearestephen greenblattstephen hicks
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