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May 16, 2012david livingstone smith, essentialism, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, less than human, natural kinds, naturalism

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

My chum David Livingstone Smith has this piece in Psychology Today. David LivingstoneHumanPsychology TodaySocial science

April 17, 2011david livingstone smith, essentialism, ethics, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, less than human, neurophilosophy, neuroscience

Less Than Human

My chum David Livingstone Smith’s latest book is getting some good coverage. The latest review of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others can be found in Scientific American.

June 1, 2010david hyder, emeralds, essentialism, grue, metaphysics, nelson goodman, new riddle of induction

Here’s a message posted to the Liverpool PHILOS listeserv. Having spend quite a bit time of being obsessed by the grue puzzle, I find this message very interesting. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear all, I spent the last six months researching the emerald market, and in the process discovered some interesting facts that bear on the history of ‘grue’, which…

November 12, 2008black Jews, Colin McGinn, essentialism, personal identity, philosophy of social science, social cognition, social constructivism, social identity, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology, Tudor Parfitt

Social Indentity

Colin McGinn poses a fair question: if Obama is half white why is he considered black? Colin is of course making the point that essentialism in these issues is not sustainable and this is reflected in the variety of very good responses to his question, perspectives that bring in fine-grained distinctions that would have never occured to…

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Less Than Human

Grue