December 2010
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Coming soon -- Inside Jokes: Using Humor to... →
by Matthew Hurley, Dan Dennett and Reginald Adams YES
Dec 21st
Your judgment of Dostoevsky is probably the single...
…with your judgment of Natalie Portman’s beauty a close second.
Dec 20th
One more reason to love John Banville →
Dec 20th
“Income inequality is a symptom, however, rather than a cause of the real...”
– Tyler Cowen in The American Interest
Dec 16th
“Viral videos aren’t about being funny. They’re about identity...”
– Ricky Van Veen, Wake Forest grad and comedy entrepreneur. He gets it. “Social”-whatever isn’t about building and strengthening relationships. It’s about signaling preferences and jockeying for position in the status hierarchy. “I...
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Adaptive significance of low levels of... →
Michele K Surbey in Evolution and Human Behavior Consciousness and self-awareness, juxtaposed by the ability to self-deceive, are legacies of our evolutionary heritage. As a purposive outgrowth of modularity, self-deception may serve to isolate threatening thoughts from consciousness and facilitate cooperation. The primary goal of the present investigation was to determine if individuals with...
Dec 13th
“Another of the king’s chief men, approving of his wise words and exhortations,...”
– The Venerable Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (II.xiii)
Dec 13th
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WatchWatch
Tamar Gendler and Stephen Stich discuss gender and philosophical intuition
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Spiritual Gains
theutopian: Religion, politics, and ignorance past: philosopher Charles Taylor in discussion with The Utopian. Read More
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The Walkmen cover “Holiday Road” (AV Club)
Dec 1st
Narcissistic Personality Disorder Eliminated from... →
Paging Ian Hacking—-people are being unmade
Dec 1st