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Questioning Willusionism | Richard Marshall | 3AM | 25 May 2012

The Browser — Sun, 27 May 2012 07:18:52 +0000

Interview with philosopher Eddy Nahmias. On determinism. Not be confused with fatalism—the idea that certain things will happen no matter what we do. The future is determined by the past, but also by what we do in the present

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The Zombie Within | Alva Noë | NPR | 18 May 2012

The Browser — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:22:44 +0000

These days it seems fashionable to claim that our selves are an illusion. Here's a neat counter-argument, that our inner zombie is where we deputize tasks we have mastered so our conscious selves can focus on the really tough stuff

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Peas And Quiet | Leonard Finkleman | Rationally Speaking | 11 May 2012

The Browser — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:18:59 +0000

Leonard uses his sharp wit to cut to shreds recent nonsense published in the New York Times as to whether it's moral to eat plants on the ground that they may have “feelings.” Will make you devour closest can of green peas instantly

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Will This Post Make Sam Harris Change His Mind About Free Will? | John Horgan | Cross-Check | 09 April 2012

The Browser — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:10:28 +0000

The answer is probably not, but Horgan’s essay is a welcome counter to much pseudophilosophical, badly scientifically informed stuff that passes for rigorous intellectual exercise these days. Not least Harris’s "The Moral Landscape"

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Under The Gaze Of Theory | Boris Groys | e-flux | 15 May 2012

The Browser — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:08:55 +0000

Heavyweight essay on art theory. "A recourse to theory liberates artists from cultural identities—from the danger that their art would be perceived only as a local curiosity. Theory opens a perspective for art to become universal"

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The Trouble With Scientism | Philip Kitcher | New Republic | 04 May 2012

The Browser — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:06:41 +0000

Kitcher confronts attitude that science can and will solve all questions. What we consider facts and how we interpret them is a matter of our (and science's own) values, and cannot therefore be a matter left just to the scientists

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Massimo Pigliucci

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Is Death Bad For You? | Shelly Kagan | Chronicle | 13 May 2012

The Browser — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:02:31 +0000

Seems like a silly question, but Yale philosopher Kagan wrote a whole book on it. In this excerpt he deploys trusted philosophical tool of thought experiments to analyze our intuitions about the dreadful final stop we will all reach

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Massimo Pigliucci

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Tariq Ramadan on Islam in the West

FiveBooks — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:22:56 +0000

The Islamic scholar and commentator tells us what it means to be Muslim and Western, and explains how mainstream views get trapped between noisy extremism and a sensation-seeking media

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To Be a European Muslim

FiveBooks — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:09:24 +0000

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What I Believe

FiveBooks — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:08:21 +0000

By Tariq Ramadan

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