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The Art of Perception
How we perceive the external world is a fascinating subject that has long attracted the attention of great thinkers from Kant to Nietzsche. Kant knew that we possessed some sort of interior filter...
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Decoding Frazer’s “Golden Bough”
Few books in the history of anthropology are better known (but never read) than James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. First published in 1890 (2 volumes), Frazer...
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In a rare moment of clarity, Immanuel Kant penned these unforgettable words: Time was, when she (Metaphysics) was the queen of all the sciences; and, if we take the will for the deed, she certainly...
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Robert Bellah on Religious Evolution
In less than a month, we will be able to lay our hands on Robert Bellah’s much anticipated Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age. It will be the latest in a string of books...
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Haeckel’s Mystical Monism
A place for everything and everything in its place. This is not just a mantra for those with obsessive tendencies. It also describes the drive that some have toward a system: a unified theory of...
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Misfires of Moral Psychology
Over the past decade there has been a sea change in the way we assess moral reasoning, judgment, and behavior. The old view, developed and championed largely by introspective philosophers, was that...
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Chilling in Aboriginal Australia
Humans have lived in Australia for nearly 50,000 years. This is a truly incredible time-depth that is difficult to comprehend. When Europeans finally figured out how to get there, they encountered...
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Free Will?
If you’ve ever spent time inside the ontologically arid box where atheists and religionists debate the issue of free will, you have probably been left gasping for air. Oxygen is in short supply and it...
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