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Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush
Administration (review)
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:06:56 -0700 (PDT)
Not only has the [Bush] administration used spin doctors to sell a
war, they have also treated science as an unnecessary irritant
whenever it arrived at conclusions that did not agree with the
official position. By placing non-scientists in positions of power the
Bush administration has been able to suppress facts ...
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Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (review)
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:59:37 -0700 (PDT)
Keith Sawyer's latest book takes aim at the 'myth of the lone genius',
the idea that creativity is essentially about flashes of individual
brilliance. This is hardly a new idea -- both the 'bolt from the blue'
and the individualistic account have been called into question before
-- but Sawyer is after something bi ...
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Literary Darwinism
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:58:48 -0700 (PDT)
A group of scholars thinks evolutionary science can reinvigorate
literary studies. Link: http://chronicle.com:80/free/v54/i47/47b00701.htm
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Locke on 'Substance in General' (paper)
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:57:06 -0700 (PDT)
ABSTRACT: My goal in this paper is to answer two questions: what, if
anything, did Locke have in mind when he spoke of substance in
general? and did Locke affirm the existence of substance in general?
Concerning the first of these, I argue that what Locke had in mind
were bare particulars (or something very closel ...
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Locke on 'Substance in General' (paper)
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:43:56 -0700 (PDT)
ABSTRACT: My goal in this paper is to answer two questions: what, if
anything, did Locke have in mind when he spoke of substance in
general? and did Locke affirm the existence of substance in general?
Concerning the first of these, I argue that what Locke had in mind
were bare particulars (or something very closel ...
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How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:25:11 -0700 (PDT)
We have evolved brains that pay attention to anecdotes because false
positives (believing there is a connection between A and B when there
is not) are usually harmless, whereas false negatives (believing there
is no connection between A and B when there is) may take you out of
the gene pool. Our brains are belief ...
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Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality
(review)
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:10:43 -0700 (PDT)
In "Embracing Mind" Wallace and Hodel attempt to reconcile the
typically Western approach to a science of the mind with Buddhist
contemplative methods of investigating consciousness. They are
critical of the apparent predominance of scientific materialism but
aim to draw significant parallels between the theorizin ...
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Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature (review)
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:53:32 -0700 (PDT)
Link: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4360
The nature of photographs or photography has entered our common
language to the extent that we find ourselves speaking easily of
photographic memories or photographic likenesses. We have theatre that
titles itself, "I, camera". We even ...
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Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism (review)
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:47:24 -0700 (PDT)
In the academic circles as well as in the popular view, Boghossian
says, it has become more and more accepted to claim that there are
"many equally valid ways of knowing the world, with science being just
one of them". This view, he claims, is counterintuitive -- after all,
on practical grounds we seldom allow for ...
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