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House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness, by François Kammerer, at Oxford University Press. The book is a defense…
Thanks, I will check this out as well! 🙂
For the nuts and bolts of “rudimentary forms of knowledge, their evolutionary origins…and unsophisticated social practices”, Sara Shettleworth’s incredibly detailed…
I suspect we differ on big picture questions about how correlated various different mental abilities are. I think a reasonable…
The changes coming to academia as we know it are too large for me to manage without confronting loss at…
The company in question here, Straive, is… not very good (in ways which I am sure are entirely representative of…
I can see why GREs might have some predictive value for some fields (namely, what they test is relevant to…
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ADDENDUM: A reader sends along this sophomoric prattle; The Monist must have fallen on hard times to be publishing material like this. The abstract alone will probably be enough for most readers, but do press on, it gives one real insight into the nether regions of the 'profession' where no actual intellectual standards prevail. Imagine, an entire paper organized around an alleged "conflation" that any smart undergraduate would avoid!
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