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Comment on Religious Studies talk today by Alex Tarbet

Alex Tarbet — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:32:22 +0000

I have enjoyed seeing Logan’s Sangha, Unitarians, and hearing speeches from Buddhists. I have been wondering about Buddhism and suffering – especially in relation to Nietzche, who I’m too infantile to properly digest. Here’s the whining of a babe in the woods.

http://usu-shaft.com/2012/a-polemic-on-suffering/

Comment on A short list of philosophers to read by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:15:30 +0000

Viola has given me some excellent ideas for BYU’s Aporia.

Comment on On brains, persons, and responsibility by Ben J. B.

Ben J. B. — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:25:39 +0000

An excellent essay. The author is correct that the standard, environmentalist social models of today are born out of optimism, not scientific reasoning. People like Prinz seem all to common in philosophy. They argue concepts such as heritability are meaningless in order to avoid the data and conclusions produced by behavioral genetics research which challenges the egalitarian/environmentalist/liberal social models. I wonder how Prinz will handle a fairly recent GWAS which has shown that the narrow heritability of fluid IQ is *at least* 0.51 and that the narrow heritability of crystallized IQ is *at least* 0.4. Unlike all of the other kinship and monozygotic twin studies that have been used to establish the broad heritability of IQ, this study looked directly at DNA in order to establish those figures, destroying a library’s load of books that critique past behavioral genetics research. Other studies involving MAOA and OXTR (genes that influence behavior) have further weakened the pillars of the standard environmentalist model of the social sciences, giving us more evidence that differences in genes have a relationship with differences in behavior. Of course, the biggest enemies of research like this are liberals that hate the idea that evolution applies to human behavior and realize that their culture-only theories of human differences are untenable in light of genetics research.

Comment on A short list of philosophers to read by Beau

Beau — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:20:54 +0000

Maybe that’s their way of adding Freud to the list. And though it may just be me, but I find no analytic structure, which takes Joyce out of the running.

Comment on A short list of philosophers to read by Huenemann

Huenemann — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:39:11 +0000

Very perceptive, Viola. These are very important issues to consider.

Comment on A short list of philosophers to read by Viola_Wery

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Comment on On brains, persons, and responsibility by Travis

Travis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:12:55 +0000

This is indeed a very thoughtful essay. Thanks for posting a link. I can’t wait to read Prinz, though I sympathize with the author that Beyond Human Nature is unlikely to rival masterpieces like Pinker’s The Blank Slate. It will be interesting to see how he tries to escape the circularity of Durkheim’s Sui Generis (explaining culture with reference to culture), or the circularity of Alfred Krober’s explanation of culture as a superorganic entity, with no reference to individual minds or human nature: There is not doubt that culture shapes us, but explaining our experiences with reference to culture begs the question of why culture exists in the forms that it does. We can’t say that it is because of culture, or we’ll have made the same mistake of circularity as Durkheim, so we need exogenous explanations for the manifestations of human culture. The obvious place to look is the bio-behavioral sciences, where weight is given both to our evolved psychological tendencies as well as the social and ecological environments which gave rise to them.

Comment on More Singer, this time on giving to the poor by Swaks

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Comment on A short list of philosophers to read by Gloria_Sync

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Comment on Harrison’s office move by richard Sherlock

richard Sherlock — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:12:34 +0000

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