"The Allegory of the Trolley Problem Paradox"
Category: Philosophy
Funny stuff....
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Brandon on Zombies
Category: Philosophy
Zombies have invaded the philosophy blogosphere, and Brandon of Siris, in providing links to all the other stuff, made some pretty strong claims that I was hoping he'd expand upon. And fortunately he has, in a follow up post that's...
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Animal Rights and Animal Research
Category: Philosophy
So there's a Behavioral and Brain Sciences paper in press on the cognitive differences between human and nonhuman animals that is related, in some ways, to my own work (it even cites me twice... yay, the citation count for...
Posted by Chris at 11:46 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Angier's The Canon and New Atheism at Prosthesis
Category: Philosophy
I've been out of town since Saturday, with no internet access. Thank goodness for tiny islands on the gulf coast of Florida. Unfortunately, I'm still sick, and I'm exhausted, so I'm going to have to hold off on posts that...
Posted by Chris at 11:06 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More on Richard Rorty's Death
Category: Philosophy
First, an obituary by his friend, Jürgen Habermas. It begins with a story of Rorty making light of the illness that ultimately killed him: After three or four paragraphs of sarcastic analysis came the unexpected sentence: " Alas, I have...
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R.I.P. Richard Rorty
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I just learned that Richard Rorty died Friday. I was a big fan of his work as an undergrad, and at that time both Consequences of Pragmatism and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity had a big influence on my thinking....
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Mind Metaphors
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Some of you who are interested in the history of psychology or philosophy of mind might find this paper interesting: Gentner, D., & Grudin, J. (1985). The evolution of mental metaphors in psychology: A 90-year retrospective. American Psychologist, 40(2), 181-192....
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Second Annual Online Philosophy Conference
Category: Philosophy
The second Online Philosophy Conference has begun, and the first week's presentations are up. If you didn't participate in last year's OPC, here's how it works: a presentation and one or two responses are posted for you to read, and...
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Framing the Great Atheist Schism
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As Trinifar says, we're witnessing a great atheist schism. While there are actually several different types of atheists participating (I wonder if we're just playing into the hands of anti-atheist rhetoric by pretending we are, or should be, a homogenous...
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John Rawls and Cognitive Science
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Some of you may find this book chapter interesting: Hauer, M.D., Young, L., & Cushman, F. (in press): Reviving Rawls' Linguistic Analogy: Operative principles and the causal structure of moral actions. In Moral Psychology and Biology....
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