van Inwagen thinks we can bypass these issues because the real threat to our free will is not causal determination (our acts having deterministic causes) but simply determination (our acts being necessitated by past events and the natural laws), since this is enough to guarantee that we cannot ever do otherwise. I think this is … Continue reading An Actual Sequence View of Freedom – 3:16
Democracy and Its Discontents | by Adam Tooze | The New York Review of Books — Read on http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/06/06/democracy-and-its-discontents/
The prescience of art: Erasmus Darwin’s poetry anticipated the theory of evolution before his grandson Charles was even born — Read on aeon.co/ideas/how-erasmus-darwins-poetry-prophesied-evolutionary-theory
If you're looking for the perfect philosophy books to take on holiday in 2019, look no further. Great beach reads, picked by philosopher Nigel Warburton. — Read on fivebooks.com/best-books/philosophy-summer-reading-2019-nigel-warburton/
After 800 years, a playful medieval poem still offers lessons in how not to debate. — Read on http://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/argument’s-sake
It’s not just in politics where otherwise smart people consistently talk past one another. People debating whether humans have free… — Read on m.nautil.us/issue/72/quandary/yes-determinists-there-is-free-will
Cognitive Conditioning: Thinking Fast and Slow (Review) — Read on youtu.be/oSIlT3qI40A Dr. Daniel Kahneman's 'Thinking Fast and Slow' (2011) is the culmination of Nobel Prize winning investigation/research into how the mind works. By using insights from the book, we can condition our mind to be faster, smarter and less prone to errors, while solidifying experience … Continue reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – Review
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Persecution is endemic in the vicious world of Young Adult publishing. The escapist settings of fantasy fiction are still afflicted by the culture war — Read on spectator.us/writers-blocked-fantasy-fiction/
Will Civilizations Clash? - Athenaeum Review — Read on athenaeumreview.org/essay/will-civilizations-clash/
