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What doe that mean? Devoted to a discussion of many philosophical questions and problems that challenge the mind and tickle the fancy.
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A novel about prediction, ethics, choice, and reversibility. How we know what we know — and more pointedly, how people use knowledge to control others, and whether real knowledge is an unlearning or unknowing ..read more
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Grow a Soul “One of the attractions of the UU approach to religion and life is caught in the assertion that divinity and spirit are to be found not through blind faith but through finding and sending down roots to the deepest part of one’s unique self. As is true in botany, those roots spread ..read more
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Full Title: Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the LawAuthor / Editor: Seana Valentine ShiffrinPublisher: Princeton University Press, 2015 Buy on Amazon Read the review! Review © Metapsychology Vol. 21, No. 19Reviewer: Bob Lane Long before I studied philosophy my father taught me a profound lesson about speech. He was a proponent of the old ..read more
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2022.06.07 View this Review Online Manon Garcia, We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, Princeton University Press, 2021, 234pp., $22.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780691223209. Reviewed by Ellie Anderson, Pomona College Five years after the climax of #metoo, a surprising development is afoot: women’s submission is trending. The tradwife movement in Britain and ..read more
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"People aren't just a collection of feeling and opinions and habits, but rather the sum total of all the choices they take...It's not so much that the situation deteriorates — it's more like doors are slamming shut, and the protagonists have fewer and fewer courses of action open to them." — Charlie Jane Anders ..read more
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Shermer and Grobman say: History is both outside and inside our minds; the past has a causal structure, which we discover objectively and describe subjectively; our knowledge is bounded by the data available to us; we should examine our biases; our interpretations are provisional ..read more
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You probably don't read website pop-ups. I don't. When we don't act consciously, we aren't using our free will, and then it's hard to describe ourselves as "agreeing" or "promising." In this situation, what is a contract? Is it only an assertion of power ..read more