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Sunday, February 12, 2012

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ND PHILOSOPHY REVIEWS

Time and Philosophy: A History of Continental Thought
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THE FRONTAL CORTEX

Are Emotions Prophetic?
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PHILOSOPHICAL DISQUISITIONS

Neuroscience-based Mind-Reading in the Law (Part One)
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CERTAIN DOUBTS

Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument: contemporary views of its semantic and epistemic implications?
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LEITER REPORTS

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SCIENCE DAILY

Generating power from salty water: Unique salt allows energy production to move inland
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LESS WRONG

Status and Changing your Mind
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CROOKED TIMBER

Books and the Fall
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CHOICE & INFERENCE

Hendricks on the cover of Connery Magazine
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APPS

Logic and languages
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NEUROETHICS AT THE CORE

Consultation on novel neurotechnologies
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PEA SOUP

Horgan and Timmons and Templeton
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NON SEQUITUR (COMIC)

Non Sequitur for Thursday, March 01, 2012
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NEW BOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY

Allen Buchanan, “Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves”
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THE NEUROCRITIC

Speaking of Aphasia...
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NEUROSKEPTIC

WAFFLE: Why Most Books Are Too Long
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NYT - STONE

Stone Links
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NEUROANTHROPOLOGY

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THINKING ALLOWED

TA 29 Feb 2012: Ambient religion - Poverty and social work
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BRAIN HAMMER

Alien Artifact 2007
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FLORIDA STUD. PHIL. BLOG

Paul Griffiths on How Evolution Tracks Truth
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A PHILOSOPHER'S BLOG

Corporate Taxes, Again
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XKCD (COMIC)

Late-Night PBS
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IT'S ONLY A THEORY

New Philosophy of Cosmology Blog!
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PHD Comics

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BRAIN STUDY

The taste of yellow: Synesthesia and a crossing of the senses
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THE SPLINTERED MIND

Cohen and Dennett on Reportability and Consciousness
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Conscience, authority and moral intuition
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FLICKERS OF FREEDOM

NEH Institute in Experimental Philosophy: Applications Due Thursday
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ETHICS ETC.

SLACRR 3 – Program
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BRAINS

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3 days ago
FAUX PHILO NEWS

Note
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PHILOSORAPT[E]RS

Faux Philosophy News
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PHILOSOPHY & POLITY

The Irenaean Theodicy and Its Problems
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The Strongest Self-Effacingness Objection
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Experiment in Biology
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The Origins of Property II
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THE INFORMATIONAL TURN

Knowledge and Truth Value Gluts
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PHILOSOPHY BRO

Mailbag Monday: Is-Ought Problem
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COGNOCULTURE

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VIHVELIN'S BLOG

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PHILOSOPHY OF COSMOLOGY

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Gary Cutting on The Moral Implications of Your Degree

"...earning a college degree shows that you have the “moral qualities” needed for most jobs: you have (to put it a bit cynically), for a...
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"It is unfortunate, and almost inevitable, that when we talk about religion we quite literally do not know what we are talking about. We...
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A Philosopher's Diary: On Reflection

"The modern thinker loves to pay lip service to facts, to submit himself to the results of various popular research programmes, to use t...
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