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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" http://www.SoupNaziSecrets.com/ng2.html L!Nihlo!lXSy;Tb ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ### ...

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 ### ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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