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Review of Antonio Damasio’s “Descartes Error”
The book provides the practicing neuroscientist ample food for thought, but it is also accessible to the educated layperson....
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Skyhooks and Cranes
It is not that there is no "watchmaker"; there is no "watch." Looking for one frames the problem the...
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Genes and the Adapted Mind
The system of inheritance of ideas is independent of the system of inheritance of genes. All this is pointing...
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The Good Samaritan and His Genes
The fundamental claim is that selfish people out reproduce unselfish ones, but superimposed on that is the claim that...
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Distributed and Shared Genetic Value
Since genes are not moral agents, they cannot be selfish, and, equally, they cannot be altruistic. But genes can...
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Selfish Genes and Inclusive Values
Each organism is in pursuit of—that is, values—its own proper life, which is all that the (nonhuman) individual organism...
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Review of David F. Noble’s “The Religion of Technology”
Having demonstrated that the ambiguous modern scientific and technological enterprise has its origin in something as ignoble as religion,...
