1SK+g Get-Rich-Quick Cons BEWARE 1SK+g3C
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:58:42 -0400
Must Read Book:
"Will The Next Liar Please Stand Up"
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How Darwin won the evolution race
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:39:40 -0700 (PDT)
It's 150 years since Darwin made one of the the most significant
breakthroughs in scientific history--the theory of natural selection.
But if it hadn't been for a young ornithologist on the other side of
the world, his seminal work might never have appeared. Robin McKie
tells the extraordinary story behind "The Or ...
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The Philosophy of Complaint
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:36:17 -0700 (PDT)
As Julian Baggini points out in his short and lucid book devoted to an
important but neglected subject, the philosophy of complaint, the
propensity to complain represents a distinguishing feature of our
species. Only Homo sapiens can conceive of a world different from the
one in which he currently finds himself. T ...
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Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self (review)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:27:53 -0700 (PDT)
"Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self" gives us a careful study
of the narrative account of selfhood of each philosopher. Narrative
approaches to the self are presented as an alternative to traditional
discussions about the self, which have tended to see it as either a
substantial entity, existing separately ...
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Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine (review)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:21:23 -0700 (PDT)
Is the end of humanity nigh? Will we become slaves or an underclass to
superintelligent machines? Should intelligent robots have rights-to-
life and freedom similar to those we humans expect? J. Storrs Hall
addresses these questions in a well written, reasonably easy to
understand book, which will occasionally chi ...
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The Reality Tests
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:03:58 -0700 (PDT)
A team of physicists in Vienna has devised experiments that may answer
one of the enduring riddles of science: Do we create the world just by
looking at it? Link: http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/06/the_reality_tests_1.php
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Character Attacks: How to Properly Apply the Ad Hominem
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:49:29 -0700 (PDT)
A new theory parses fair from unfair uses of personal criticism in
rhetoric. Link: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=character-attack
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The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (review)
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:36:48 -0700 (PDT)
Mark Johnson's book is a welcome contribution to the recent
philosophical literature meant to expound the ontological,
epistemological, aesthetic, and moral implications of research coming
out of second-generation cognitive science. It belongs in the company
of theorists like George Lakoff, Antonio Damasio, Eugene ...
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Mysticism & Space: Space and Spatiality in the Works of Richard
Rolle, the Cloud of Unknowing Author (review)
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:25:03 -0700 (PDT)
"The concept of mysticism," the author of 'Mysticism and Space',
Carmel Bendon Davis, warns us "is not straightforward." Consequently,
Davis provides the essential meaning of the word in her seminal study:
Christian mysticism is the product of pseudo-Denis whose work,
Theologia Mystica, perceives mysticism as the ...
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Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Rethinking Emancipation (review)
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
Throughout the book Hewlett emphasizes how all three thinkers see
intervention in the world as being the only way of understanding
it. . . . Thus they do not want to understand a reality given in
advance but to account for the emergence of realities. This creates a
tension in his reading of these three thinkers. O ...
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