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Category Archives: Philosophy
Logic Lane: A Philosophical Retrospective (1972)
It is a retrospective by Professor Sir Alfred Ayer of the development of philosophy in Oxford from the 1930’s to 1972. Excerpts are included from some of the other films in the series which use conversations on a variety of … Continue reading
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Marooned In One’s Own Skull
David Foster Wallace, from an 1993 interview with The Review of Contemporary Fiction: I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, … Continue reading
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Anxiety & Consciousness
Louis Menand reviews Scott Stossel’s book My Age of Anxiety: “To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible … Continue reading
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Max Tegmark: Mathematical Reality of Reality
A physicist (with a cool name) provides an update on ideas proposed some years ago by Eugene Wigner in “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences“: Max Tegmark has a theory about reality. According to Max, who is … Continue reading
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Patients in Vegetative State Can Respond Emotionally to Loved Ones
The Jahi McMath case is this decade’s Terri Shiavo case, albeit with less media attention this time. (This is because the media ‘won’ in the Schiavo case. She was removed from her feeding tube, despite objections from her parents.) In … Continue reading
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BookTV: Mark Levin
Two things that stood out of me in the BookTV interview with Mark Levin yesterday on C-SPAN. (I caught only an hour of it). 1) In the interview, Levin asserts — without caveats — that Christianity (particularly) Protestants — are … Continue reading
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God, Hayek & the Conceit of Reason
In Standpoint magazine, Jonathan Neumann has an excellent article on Hayek’s argument against scientism (“God, Hayek and the Conceit of Reason“).
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Neanderthal Burials Confirmed as Ancient Ritual
What’s interesting about this archaeological determination is that, going this far back, our ancestors appear to have been cognizant of the concept of immanent mortality for all (aka death) and possibly also the conceptual construct of ‘post-death’ (aka an after-life.) … Continue reading
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Culture: The Denial of Death
From the Omni reboot, Jason Horsely writes: Sheldon Solomon and the Ernest Becker Foundation have provided plenty of compelling evidence for the idea that culture is a means by which humans deny death. Humans create culture as a way to … Continue reading
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David Horowitz: The Black Book of the American Left
On C-SPAN’s BookTV this past weekend, I caught David Horowitz speaking on his new book The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz. Horowitz was excellent as always, showcasing his ability to distill the … Continue reading
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