Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No | Mind Matters – 1848+: The End(s) of History

We had a post yesterday on free will, citing Alternet, but this essay shows that the research the article pointed to has been challenged and that the issue of free will has not been refuted by neur…

Source: Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No | Mind Matters – 1848+: The End(s) of History

picking holes in…Picking Holes in the Concept of Natural Selection | BioScience | Oxford Academic – 1848+: The End(s) of History

The academic world has finally produced some critics of Darwin, but as this review shows, the world of biology is so confused the critiques can’t register. The reviewer here becomes so sophis…

Source: picking holes in…Picking Holes in the Concept of Natural Selection | BioScience | Oxford Academic – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Book review of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden – The Washington Post

Using “genotypic scores” could level the playing field in schools, Kathryn Paige Harden argues.

Source: Book review of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden – The Washington Post

 Habermas has totally misunderstood the Axial Age…??? Importance of studying the ‘eonic model’ – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Basically, during the Axial Age (800-300 BCE) some break-through thinkers (like Isaiah or Buddha) oriented us toward a “new, transcendent principle (God, Logos, Nirvana) that was the telos of human…

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science, scientism and the failure of reductionism…//Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience  – 1848+: The End(s) of History – 1848+: The End(s) of History

I am a student of science bar none, but I have also learned from the larger sphere of culture and global diversity the limits of science and its failure so far to provide a world view that can stan…

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downfall of the Darwin propaganda machine…//Descent of Man Revisited – 1848+: The End(s) of History

9780984702909_Descent_of_Man_Revisited(3) I am both pleased and puzzled by the success of this book with thousands of downloads: published in 2012 using Adobe Lightening Print and created with the …

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