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O’Leary on how we are Losing Our Minds

By chris | Published: 16 September 2009
Over at the Mindful Hack Denyse O’Leary has also been documenting the inexorable slide of ethics into the pit of biological determinism. There are the run-of-the-mill stories of evolutionary psychologists that don’t seem to realise that humans have important characteristics missing in apes that are essential to understanding ethics. More alarming are signs that lawyers [...]
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Moral Philosophy

By chris | Published: 31 August 2009
Having spent yesterday’s post ripping into Joshua’s inaugural contribution to bloggingheads.tv, I will explain why and start to say something positive about moral philosophy, as I intended to do yesterday. When I first came across Experimental Philosophy, especially with its focus on intentions, I was delighted.  Here was something fresh and accessible, asking important questions, and [...]
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