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Do Not Read This Article On Why You Don’t Have Free Will
There is a certain charm in a fellow who can bring himself to write "We humans like to think of ourselves as mindful creatures" while intimating it isn't so. Yet…
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Edge’s Last Question
The guy who runs Edge, the site we've had some fun with over the years, has decided he's run out of interesting questions. So to go out with a noise,…
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Why Child Sex Abuse & Trafficking Is Allowed To Continue — Guest Post by Cassandra Outlander
A brief summary from an new contributor. Child sex abuse and trafficking is as horrific as it is unbelievable, which is one reason why the criminals involved are able to…
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Why Is A Living Planet A Heresy?
I can't prove that holding that the earth is alive and possesses an intellect and will is heresy, but I think it is for the following reasons. On my Stream…
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Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Have Free Will
Edge is at it again, asking named persons "What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?" Many interesting things to discuss, so consider this the launching of…
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Leibniz’s Problem with Materialism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
In this essay, I shall consider a popular view in the philosophy of mind known as emergentism. Emergentism is a type of materialist view that says that the brain or…
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Sean Carroll’s “The Big Picture” Reviewed: Why “Poetic Naturalism” is an Oxymoron — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Another version of this article first appeared at Kurland's site. Scientism, the belief that science can explain everything about the world and ourselves, is a religion, although not formally expressed…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Every Agent Acts for an End
Previous post. Every agents does indeed act for an end, and never for nothing. For nothing is the absence of anything. There is no such thing as "random". How every…
