Type post Author Michael Egnor Date April 21, 2016 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, history, Research, Science Pioneering Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield: Why Don’t We Have Intellectual Seizures? Michael Egnor April 21, 2016 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 1 Penfield began his career as a materialist, convinced that the mind was wholly a product of the brain. He finished as an emphatic dualist. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 16, 2015 CategoriesFaith & SciencePhilosophy Tagged , __k-review, events, science, Views The "Stalin Point": A.C. Grayling Replies Michael Egnor December 16, 2015 Faith & Science, Philosophy 1 Perhaps a case can be made that denial of purpose and intelligent agency in nature has echoes in autism. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 15, 2015 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignLegal Science (jurisprudence) Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News, Views A Reflection on the Dover Anniversary Michael Egnor December 15, 2015 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence) 1 Dover was a concession by the Darwinist community that it could not defend Darwinism from a one-minute paragraph read in a schoolroom. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 11, 2015 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophyPhysical Sciences Tagged , __k-review, science, Views Can You Perceive a Star That’s No Longer There? Michael Egnor December 11, 2015 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences 1 The only reason we perceive that it still exists is that the light from it takes a long time to reach us. Read More ›
phrenology-ii-stockpack-adobe-stock-135377455-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 10, 2015 CategoriesEthicsNeuroscience & MindReproductive Science Tagged , __nedited, cerebral cortex, fMRI, gender, junk science, moral agency, phrenology, public policy, Research, scientific racism, sexual dimorphism, transgenderism At the Intersection of Phrenology and Public Policy Michael Egnor December 10, 2015 Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Reproductive Science 6 A recent PNAS study is the latest iteration of dial-a-science: just call and order science to fit your favored narrative. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 9, 2015 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, science Denying the Signature in the Brain Michael Egnor December 9, 2015 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 1 There are no analogies to living things that are not intelligently designed. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 8, 2015 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __k-review, science Perception and the Cartesian Theater Michael Egnor December 8, 2015 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 1 The Cartesian theater is what remains of Cartesian dualism after the immaterial mind is removed. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 4, 2015 CategoriesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, history, science, Views The Clever Hans Problem and Research on Animal Cognition Michael Egnor December 4, 2015 Neuroscience & Mind 1 Animals think particularly, not abstractly. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 1, 2015 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __k-review, science, Views Do Perceptions Happen in Your Brain? Michael Egnor December 1, 2015 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 9 My materialistic interpretation of my perception has led me to infinite regress! Aargh! Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date November 27, 2015 CategoriesEnvironment & ClimateScienceScience Education Tagged , __edited, Nation, Research, science NCSE: Transparency in Science? That’s Not Science Education! Michael Egnor November 27, 2015 Environment & Climate, Science, Science Education 3 Why withhold scientific documents, if they confirm the integrity of the scientific process? Read More ›
