The Bookshelf
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design (2010)
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Imagine that approximately 160,000 - 200,000 years ago, a huge asteroid miles across is hurtling toward the earth as the earth's gravit...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent (1875)
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The subjects of personal identity and group identity have surfaced in a couple of previous posts in this blog, (see April 1, 2012 , Decem...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Jose Saramago, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982)
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While I was reading Jose Saramago 's Baltasar and Blimunda , Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' commentary published in The New York Times tit...
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Steven Nadler, A Book Forged in Hell (2011)
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In 1632, Galileo Galilei published a book entitled Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems . The book compared the Copernican Syst...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Michael Shermer, The Science of Good and Evil (2004)
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Christopher Boehm's thesis (see November 21, 2012 post ) is that members of egalitarian late-Pleistocene human hunter-gatherer groups su...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Christopher Boehm, Moral Origins, The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (2012)
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Anthropologist Christopher Boehm is interested in this question: Why did humans evolve a conscience? Before exploring this question and w...
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