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The Lawless Frontier
Daniel Gelernter
[short_description] Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature, edited by Nancy Cartwright and Keith Ward, is a collection of recent essays about the philosophy of science. Daniel Gelernter offers a critical review.
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Imperfect Ignorance
Arthur Cody
[short_description] Belief, memory, and intention are comprehended only in their own terms. Philosopher Arthur Cody argues that our cognitive faculties do not fit into our scientific explanatory systems.
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Successful Science
Merrilee Salmon
[short_description] Does knowledge gained through the scientific method have a unique claim to truth? Is this the only true path? Merrilee Salmon reviews Scientism: The New Orthodoxy, eds. R. Williams and D. Robinson.
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Vegetable Rights
Daniel Gelernter
[short_description] Is human culture in denial of vegetal existence? Daniel Gelernter reviews Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder.
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More Better Meta
Nona Robinson
[short_description] Empty sets, conspiracies, and indeterminacy. Nona Robinson reviews Numero Zero, the last novel by the late Umberto Eco, connoisseur of secrets.
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Consciousness
Arthur Cody
[short_description] Describing consciousness is hard. Can we characterize our experiences as thinking beings? Arthur Cody says no, but argues for the importance of the feelings that authorize us to initiate actions.
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Materialism or Nothing
Arthur Cody
[short_description] Brain research is intended to produce valuable results in medicine and information technology. Nevertheless, the contentions made by both some notable projects are not only unproven, but indefensible.
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Free Will – Again
Philip Clayton
[short_description] In Free Will, Sam Harris argues that science has shown freedom of the will does not exist. Harris takes up one of the most complex debates in Western philosophy and trivializes it beyond recognition.
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