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May 1, 2011Darwin, Dennett, grayling, humanism, Ludwig Büchner, materialism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, richard dawkins, Thomas Huxley

Long before Dennett, Dawkins, Grayling and others there was . . .

Ludwig Büchner. According to Wikipedia: The extreme materialism of this work excited so much opposition that he was compelled to give up his post at Tübingen.

July 26, 2008atheism, chomsky, chris frith, civil conversation, cognition, enlightenment, epistemology, grayling, mary midgley, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, psychology, rationality, reason, relativism, roger penrose, romanticism, social cognition, social epistemology, sociology

Reason with a capital “R”

Anthony Grayling has convened a “symposium” on Reason in the latest issue of the New Scientist. Grayling’s position is very predictable but credit to him and the editors for bringing together a diverse group who for the most part seem to disagree with his conception. Neuroscientist Chris Frith, mathematician Roger Penrose and philosopher Mary Midgley are…