Friday, April 8, 2011

Antonio Damasio, Self Comes to Mind (2010)

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Antonio Damasio's Self Comes to Mind is the third in a sequence of books in this blog following John Searle's Philosophy in the 21...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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Even for those of us who are not professional scholars, there is value in reading the original words of someone like David Hume rather than ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

John Searle, Philosophy in a New Century: Selected Essays (2008)

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For the second consecutive post, I connect with issues I first encountered nearly forty years ago in college. I took two undergraduate philo...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (2009)

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When I was in college in the early 1970s, anyone interested in reading, studying, and discussing philosophical ideas was likely to read John...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Mark Currides and Leroy Phillips, Jr., Contempt of Court (1999)

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This is a story about injustice. A true story. And if there was ever a story that seems to support Richard Wrangham's vision of male-dom...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Sean B. Carroll, The Making of the Fittest (2006)

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This is a wonderful book to read following Genome ( November 27, 2010 post ). It tells another set of stories derived from sets of three-le...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Matt Ridley, Genome (1999)

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A television show, Law and Order , opens each episode with a narrative line about the role of the police and prosecutors in the criminal jus...