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• Free Will and Corruptible Reason

  

  Much ink has been spilt in philosophical writings on the question of ‘free will’. Free will has often been confused with free reason, free choice and free... Read more

  The 09 April 2013 by   Emcybulska
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• Moral Intuitions as Evolutionary Modules

  

  People have moral reactions to the situations they observe around themselves -- within the work environment, in the family, on the street, or in international... Read more

  The 02 April 2013 by   Dlittle30
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• City of Lions -- Lemberg, Lwów, and Lviv

  

  Akademicki Square, Lemberg(Source)The western Ukrainian city of Lviv has an impressive and complex legacy. It began the 20th-Century as Lemberg, an... Read more

  The 25 March 2013 by   Praymont
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• Peddling Schopenhauer

  

  I found this ad folded inside a musty, old copy of The Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: 'The Wisdom of Life' and Other Essays (New York, NY: Black's Readers Servic... Read more

  The 11 March 2013 by   Praymont
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• Digging for Biblical Truth

  

  Over at The Atlantic, Dylan Bergeson reports on the shenanigans that pass for archaeology in the Palestinian West Bank. The focal point is an evangelical... Read more

  The 06 March 2013 by   Cris
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• The Busy Bee Brain

  

  With brains in the news these days (for example, all the hoopla about the Brain Activity Map project) I've decided to republish this old post suggesting that th... Read more

  The 05 March 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• On the Solace of Crepes

  

  Today—and often—I am of divided mind and body, and probably divided soul as well.  Last week I was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Tempe, Arizona.  Next week, I... Read more

  The 04 March 2013 by   Wendyrw619
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• Secrets of Pink Elephants Revealed

  

  This is the second most-popular post on the blog. That, I assume, is because it's about an amazing and enigmatic bit of animation. Some day I'll return to it an... Read more

  The 28 February 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Spirits of Sapir-Whorf

  

  I’ve been thinking, in English, about how thinking in English affects my ability to comprehend concepts, ideas, and stories that have been translated from... Read more

  The 25 February 2013 by   Cris
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• Cheer Up, Arty! It's Your Birthday

  

  I recently read some of Arthur Schopenhauer's work. He was a first-rate aphorist who, unfortunately, diluted his pithy wisdom with mediocre metaphysics (a... Read more

  The 22 February 2013 by   Praymont
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