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Materialism and Reductionism

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A Far Other Butterfly

Fall 2011 • Wilfred M. McClay on “The Artist of the Beautiful” and the meeting of the spiritual and material realms

What Consciousness Is Not

Fall 2011 • Raymond Tallis unwinds the work of David Chalmers, philosopher of mind

Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness

Fall 2011 • Stephen L. Talbott on survival, fitness, and the purposiveness of organisms

What Do Organisms Mean?

Winter 2011 • Steve Talbott on how life speaks at every level

The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings

Fall 2010 • Steve Talbott confronts the language of organism-as-machine

What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves

Fall 2010 • Raymond Tallis debunks the tropes of “neuromythology”

Disenchanting Determinism

Summer 2010 • Caitrin Nicol reviews novels by Richard Powers and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

How Can I Possibly Be Free?

Summer 2010 • Raymond Tallis on the neuroscientific case against free will, and why it’s wrong

Getting Over the Code Delusion

Summer 2010 • Steve Talbott on epigenetics and the demise of DNA as destiny

Why Minds Are Not Like Computers

Winter 2009 • Ari N. Schulman on fundamental confusion about artificial intelligence

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