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Free Will Cannot Be An Illusion

I get more than two dozen press releases and book announcements a week, a consequence of running a not-as-obscure-as-some-would-wish blog. The latest was from Gregg D. Caruso, an academic philosopher…
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Is Free Will an Illusion?

Tis the season to ask the title question, as it was rhetorically asked by Shaun Nichols, an academic "experimental" philosopher at the University of Arizona. Nichols has sympathy with those…
On The Myths Of Scientism
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On The Myths Of Scientism

I was delighted to learn, via Hans Schantz's Podcast: Sir Francis Bacon - Father of Scientism?, of the paper "The New Universal Church" by the late French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck.…