Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Die-Hard Romantic (review)
Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:23:30 -0700 (PDT)
Divided into six chapters, exploring the Greek understanding of love,
from Eros, to Philia and Agape, Socrates in love is soap philosophy
for those in need of a wash by one of America's self proclaimed auto
dictats. Each chapter combines bits of dialogue, pieces of
autobiography and idle chatter between the friend ...
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Deconstruction and Democracy: Derrida's Politics of Friendship
(review)
Wed, 2 Jul 2008 19:01:25 -0700 (PDT)
In one of his most shocking remarks, Jacques Derrida claimed that
there is "no deconstruction without democracy, [and] no democracy
without deconstruction." Alex Thomson's goal in Deconstruction and
Democracy is to show us why this claim is not so shocking after all.
And he succeeds, but only at the price of losin ...
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The Uncertain Sciences (review)
Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:55:41 -0700 (PDT)
In "The Uncertain Sciences", Bruce Mazlish presents a cunning and
visionary examination of the scientific enterprise of understanding
the human species and, by doing so, of its ability to address real
life problems. He argues that disciplines that traditionally fall
under the nebulous umbrella of Behavioral Scienc ...
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Isn't it time...
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:01:35 +0100
Isn't it about time we all posted in HTML?
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1SK+g Get-Rich-Quick Cons BEWARE 1SK+g3C
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:58:42 -0400
Must Read Book:
"Will The Next Liar Please Stand Up"
http://www.SoupNaziSecrets.com/ng2.html
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How Darwin won the evolution race
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:39:40 -0700 (PDT)
It's 150 years since Darwin made one of the the most significant
breakthroughs in scientific history--the theory of natural selection.
But if it hadn't been for a young ornithologist on the other side of
the world, his seminal work might never have appeared. Robin McKie
tells the extraordinary story behind "The Or ...
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The Philosophy of Complaint
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:36:17 -0700 (PDT)
As Julian Baggini points out in his short and lucid book devoted to an
important but neglected subject, the philosophy of complaint, the
propensity to complain represents a distinguishing feature of our
species. Only Homo sapiens can conceive of a world different from the
one in which he currently finds himself. T ...
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Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self (review)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:27:53 -0700 (PDT)
"Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self" gives us a careful study
of the narrative account of selfhood of each philosopher. Narrative
approaches to the self are presented as an alternative to traditional
discussions about the self, which have tended to see it as either a
substantial entity, existing separately ...
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Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine (review)
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:21:23 -0700 (PDT)
Is the end of humanity nigh? Will we become slaves or an underclass to
superintelligent machines? Should intelligent robots have rights-to-
life and freedom similar to those we humans expect? J. Storrs Hall
addresses these questions in a well written, reasonably easy to
understand book, which will occasionally chi ...
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The Reality Tests
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:03:58 -0700 (PDT)
A team of physicists in Vienna has devised experiments that may answer
one of the enduring riddles of science: Do we create the world just by
looking at it? Link: http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/06/the_reality_tests_1.php
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