My remarks from the welcome dinner on September 21, including some amusing ancedotes about Karl Llewellyn, and discussion of legal reasoning and ordinary reasoning, and the Socratic method, among other topics. Response from students was gratifying ("awesome," "inspiring")!
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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! 🙂
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A quick comment before I’ve read the piece: It seems pertinent to both the debates and the assessment of the…