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The Daily Owl says, “What I want to insist on, ceaselessly, is that one can accept the obvious facts of physics—for example, that the world is made up entirely of physical particles in fields of force—without at the same time denying the obvious facts about our own experiences—for example, that we all are conscious and that our conscious states have quite irreducible phenomenological properties. ” (John Searle) |
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Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"
No one was more baffled by his celebrity than Albert Einstein himself: "Why is it that nobody understands me and...
Modern diet and food fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the...
suliqyre:“Growing Empathy”, etc. (406-410)“Greater empathy can always be cultivated, regardless of how old we are or the past experiences we’ve...
