Category Archives: Dualism vs. Materialism

Parallel Postulates

September 14, 2009 – 10:32 pm

Lawrence Auster is a very smart fellow, and I admire his formidable presence on the ramparts of Western culture. But he has curious blind spots, for one so intelligent, and one of them has to do with Darwinism.
Have a look at this exchange with a reader, one who patiently tries to explain, as I have [...]

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Causes and Reasons

May 4, 2008 – 11:13 pm

Jeffery Hodges left a comment on our last post about free will (and I do apologize for approaching the subject so circumspectly, over a period of weeks) in which he asked if I was making a distinction between causes and reasons. This is an important question — and indeed I am.

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Fogbound

June 30, 2007 – 11:13 pm

Over at Dr. William Vallicella’s Maverick Philosopher website there is a dicussion thread underway, prompted by a silly item in the New York Times about cognitive neuroscience and the soul. In the original article, the author, obviously unfamiliar with the labyrinthine convolutions of mind-body philosophy, embarrasses herself with the following:
But as evolutionary biologists and cognitive [...]

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