THE PHILOSOPHY CLASS
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David Hume
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David Hume
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
381: The Brain, determinism and Free Will
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In The Critique of Pure Reason (first published in 1781), the German philosopher Immanuel Kant maintained that causation was one of the fu...
Saturday, January 8, 2011
294: Another Rationalist's error
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Modern moral philosophers generally agree that altruism is important to morality, although they disagree about what it is, how to explain it...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
291: Brain and Morality 2
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Some critics of Marc Hauser demand more than just a a catalogue of moral "grammatical " rules, like Chomsky did for language, but...
Monday, May 17, 2010
253: Adam Smith (1723 – 1790)
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The story begins with mercantilism, the dominating economic theory and practice in the early ages in Europe. The basic idea is that the stat...
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