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Saturday, June 18, 2005
Juxtaposed Passages on Conditions of Existence
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[1] "Zoology has a principle of reasoning which is peculiar to it, and which it employs with advantage on many occasions: this is the p...
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Self-Knowledge and a Poetic Soliloquy
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I just now wrote the following off the top of my head. The "Pangur Bán" reference is, of course, to the anonymous 8th/9th century ...
I Think I Will Not Hang Myself To-day
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A Ballade of Suicide by G. K. Chesterton The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in a ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Darwin as Moral Sense Theorist
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Re-reading my critique of Madigan, I'm not wholly satisfied with it; in part because the nonsensical misuse of Darwin's moral specul...
History Carnival
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The Tenth History Carnival is up at "Spinning Clio"; and it looks great. The next History Carnival will be here , at Siris, July ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
The Joy of Science Libraries
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I am blogging this from the Gerstein Science Library, which is perhaps my favorite library on campus. Inside it is a weird mix of Higher Ins...
Madigan on Morals
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Tim Madigan has an interesting essay in Philosophy Now "on scientific versus religious explanations of ethical behaviour"; as he ...
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