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Free Will, Super Freakocide and Mansfield Park
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Horgan on Free Will
On his blog at the Centre for Science Writing ,John Horgan has been looking at Free Will, ethics and science, his latest post skewering an Einstein quote using a quintessential classical physics analogy (lunar orbits) to suggest that Free Will is an illusion.
I agree with John’s broad thesis, about [...]
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Williams on the Ethics of War
Henry at Crooked Timber notes how even centrists are contributing to the shouting match that makes up so much of our contemporary intellectual public discourse, pointing out that a little self-knowledge wouldn’t go amiss where one centrist is concerned. Having my head in Mansfield Park at the moment, I could help adding that some more [...]
Rational Or Christian
I have been using Marilyn Butler’s brilliant Jane Austen and the War of Ideas to write the essay on Mansfield Park and was reminded of this:
In characterizing her heroine, Fanny, Jane Austen illustrates her idealogical disagreement with Maria Edgeworth. Caroline Percy of Patronage, Belinda, Leonora, and other Edgeworth model characters, is essentially a rationalist. Fanny [...]
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Bankers, Economists, All, Repent
Archbishop Rowan Williams’ recent call on Newsnight for bankers and economists to repent has provoked a bit of debate in the UK, while across the pond Paul Krugman’s earlier call in the NYT Magazine for fresh water economists to repent has provoked a sharp response from its targets (h/t John Quiggin, who has a nice [...]
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The Growth Illusion