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• Conjunctions on the Autumn Equinox

  

  Early yesterday afternoon I found myself sitting in the sanctuary at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The Parish was founded in 1835; this is it... Read more

  The 22 September 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Graffiti: Drop Back and Punt

  

  That’s not the phrase I want – “drop back and punt” – but it’s the best I can do at the moment. The phrase I want is French (a language I do not know). Read more

  The 12 September 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• What’s a Language? Evidence from the Brain

  

  Yesterday I put up a post (A Note on Memes and Historical Linguistics) in which I argued that, when historical linguists chart relationships between things... Read more

  The 28 August 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Evolution and Emergence Explain Social Change

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto.The two theories of social change that I find most compelling are Evolution and Emergence. Evolution is a well known idea in... Read more

  The 23 August 2013 by   Realizingresonance
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• Why Was Musil Unfair to Karl Kraus?

  

  You can see and hear Kraus reading from one of his texts at 8.21 in the above clip.Among Karl Kraus' fans were many first-rate geniuses. Kafka, Wittgenstein,... Read more

  The 19 August 2013 by   Praymont
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• Is Embodied Cognition a "no Brainer"?

  

  Brains, HUH, yeah, what are they good for?When we say "there are no mental representations", people often hear 'the brain doesn't do anything'. Read more

  The 02 August 2013 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Organ Donation and the Ethics of Lifesaving

  

  English: Dr. Ehtuish Preforming An Organ Transplant. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The Organ Transplant Authority is consulting over proposals to give priority on... Read more

  The 11 July 2013 by   Thepoliticalidealist
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• The Memetic Mind, Not: Where Dennett Goes Wrong

  On the face of it, Dennett and I have very different views about cultural evolution. To be sure, we both believe that Dawkins’s initial insight is valid: that... Read more

  The 02 July 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Grounded Vs. Embodied Cognition: a (hopefully Uncontentious) Note on Terminology

  

  Our Frontiers paper made the case that embodied cognition is, by definition, a fairly radical affair. We argue ...if perception-action couplings and resources... Read more

  The 01 July 2013 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl: Animist “Primitives”

  

  At the conclusion of my post on RR Marett, I noted that for all his keen insights into the expansively causal and perhaps even cosmological nature of animist... Read more

  The 21 April 2013 by   Cris
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