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An interview with Elaine Scarry, author of The Body in Pain, and On Beauty and Being Just
This 50-minute interview, in RealAudio format (bummer) is no longer accessible from the CBC.ca main website, but, luckily, here's the Wayback Machine archive. Interview is from April 2007.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20070706000556/http://www.cbc.ca/writersandcompany/schedule/april...
Defence of Poesie (Ponsonby, 1595)
"Now for the poet, he nothing affirmeth..." Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uoregon.edu%2F%7Erbear%2Fdefence.html
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http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/defence.html
Atariology
faith, fun, games, joke, philosophy, religion, weird saved by: Kleverson more details ...
http://www.atariology.com
Business Directory, Online Reference, User Friendly Directory
Business Directory provides links to many aspects of business, computers, lifestyle & entertainment, online shopping, real estate, internet, health, politics, arts & humanities, home & fa...
bank, banking, biotechnology, business, computer, discussion, economic, entertainment, finance, freedom, More... saved by: louis23186 more details ...
http://www.roadfree.com
The Atheism Web: Logic & Fallacies
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http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
Discardia
"Discardia is celebrated by getting rid of stuff and ideas you no longer need. It's about letting go, abdicating from obligation and guilt, being true to the self you are now."
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http://www.metagrrrl.com/discardia
The Neural Buddhists - New York Times
My guess is that the atheism debate is going to be a sideshow. The cognitive revolution is not going to end up undermining faith in God, it’s going to end up challenging faith in the Bi...
2008, article, atheism, brooks, buddhism, fair, love, neuroscience, nytimes, philosophy, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/opinion/13brooks.html
Experimental Philosophy: Moral Judgments and Happiness part 2
If we think that somebody is living a bad life---perhaps by being a morally bad person---then we might not attribute happiness to her even if we believe that she likes and wants to contin...
2008, article, commented, happiness, morality, philosophy, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2008/05/moral-judgments.html
Overcoming Bias
If we know the common patterns of error or self-deception, maybe we can work around them ourselves, or build social structures for smarter groups. We know we aren't perfect, and can't be...
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http://www.overcomingbias.com
Robin Hanson
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http://hanson.gmu.edu
Why I love working with family people
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http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/996-why-i-love-working-with-family-people
Free will - you only think you have it - fundamentals - 04 May 2006 - New Scientist
"Our lives could be like the second showing of a movie - all actions play out as though they are free, but that freedom is an illusion," says Kochen.
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19025504.000
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience - with annotated text
While Walden can be applied to almost anyone's life, "Civil Disobedience" is like a venerated architectural landmark: it is preserved and admired, and sometimes visited, but for most of u...
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http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_david_thoreau.html
The Moral Instinct - New York Times
2008, altruism, article, ethics, morality, neuroscience, philosophy, pinker, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html
Lessons from Star Trek
Putting aside the fictional elements and the imagined technology, the human aspects are very real. It may be enormously uncommon today, but it’s certainly not impossible for individuals...
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http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/lessons-from-star-trek
Pragmatism Cybrary
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life?
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http://www.pragmatism.org
BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Morality under threat as science debunks our sense of free will
If exposure to deterministic messages increases the likelihood of unethical actions", the researchers said, "then identifying approaches for insulating the public against this danger beco...
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http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2008/02/morality-under-threat-as-science.html
Dwelling in Possibilities - ChronicleReview.com
What makes the Internet singular is its power to expand desire, expand possibility beyond the confines of prior media.
2008, attention, culture, drugs, essay, habits, impatience, learning, philosophy, psychology, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i27/27b00701.htm
How to Avoid Being Enslaved by Consumerism - Lifehack.org
The way to break the bonds of consumerism and see past the mirage of ownership is in building a mind capable of doing this.
2007, article, consumerism, happiness, ownership, philosophy, simplicity saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/how-to-avoid-being-enslaved-by-consumerism.html
Nicki Brøchner
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http://www.nickibrochner.com
Peter Merel's Tao Te Ching translation - AC
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http://alistair.cockburn.us/index.php/Peter_Merel's_Tao_Te_Ching_translation#The_GNL_Tao_Te_...
Malcolm Muggeridge - Wikiquote
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere or landi...
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Malcolm_Muggeridge
Overcoming Bias: Artificial Addition
philosophy of numbers
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http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/artificial-addi.html
Heart Sutra: Commentary on Text (5)
OH SARIPUTRA, FORM DOES NOT DIFFER FROM THE VOID, AND THE VOID DOES NOT DIFFER FROM FORM. FORM IS VOID AND VOID IS FORM; THE SAME IS TRUE FOR FEELINGS, PERCEPTIONS, VOLITIONS AND CONSCIOU...
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/heartv05.htm
Montaigne's skepticism: Apologie of Sebond, 1580
Montaigne's famous defense of Raymond Sebond, the proponent of natural theology, in which he lays out a profoundly, even shockingly skeptical view of human knowledge.
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http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/2xii.htm
David Hume's epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1734
In his early 20s, the great Scottish philosopher, David Hume, wrote this "letter to a physician" (unidentified, but probably Arbuthnot) giving an account of his melancholic symptoms and h...
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/davidhume
Left of Zen » Top 50 Atheism Quotes
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http://leftofzen.com/quotes-atheism/2008/01/14
Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files
A list of fallacies organized alphabetically. Most are drawn from logic, but some are rhetorical. Very cool.
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http://www.fallacyfiles.org/contents.html
Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Undergrad philosophy conference in Oregon. The 11th annual conference is April 20-21, 2007; submission deadline is Feb. 1, 2007.
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http://www.pacificu.edu/as/philosophy/conference/index.cfm
Existential Primer: Historical Context
Brief historical introduction to existentialism.
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http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/ex_history.html
Giambattista Vico quotations
Quotes from Vico (1668-1744). The last one is worth pondering.
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http://www.quotationsbook.com/authors/7439/Giambattista_Vico
Chomsky debates Foucault on human nature (1971)
Randomly stumbled across this. Looks fascinating.
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http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm
Giambattista Vico: a short introduction to his thought
An archived essay from Johns Hopkins UP introducing Vico's conceptual framework for the human sciences.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20020520204450/http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_li...