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David Klinghoffer

Date
June 25, 2019

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Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, __edited, abstract thought, brain, critics, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, nature, Neil deGrasse Tyson, neuroscience, Plato, science, Science Uprising, Stony Brook University, truth}

Science Uprising — Michael Egnor Responds to a (Thoughtful) Critic

_{David Klinghoffer
June 25, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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“Although higher thought is not localizable to one region of the brain, it may be distributed to neurons throughout the brain.” Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

Date
May 31, 2019

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Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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, __k-review, abstract thought, abstractions, animals, Darwinian theory, humans, Jeffrey Shallit, mathematician, mercy, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience}

More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 31, 2019

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether your dog can philosophize is not a puzzle you need to look to the Oxford English Dictionary to resolve. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 24, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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, __k-review, abstract thought, atheism, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, physical objects, puppy}

Why Human Reason Didn’t “Evolve”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 24, 2019

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Egnor: “Think of the irony: a professor of philosophy, who is paid only to reason, uses reason to argue against reason. Welcome to the bowels of atheist metaphysics.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 24, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, abstract thought, abstraction, animals, apes, emotion, humans, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, perception, reality, spirituality}

Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 24, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 12, 2019

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, apes, Aristotle, Christianity, communication, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, dog, Homo sapiens, human mind, humans, Jerry Coyne, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, physiology, signs, soul, speech}

Why Animals Don’t Speak

_{David Klinghoffer
March 12, 2019

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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If what separates us from other animals were material in nature, material alone, then perhaps we could look to a material process for an explanation. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 11, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, cats, communication, Dogs, English, jokes, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience, signal, signaling, signs, Twitter}

Talking Animals and Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
December 11, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Whether in Warner Bros. cartoons, old jokes, or on Twitter, a good deal of humor has been derived from supposing that animals could talk. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 11, 2018

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, Australia, dog, food, honeybees, humans, neurons, nothing, researchers, universals, visual cortex, zero}

Can Bees Understand the Concept of “Zero”?

_{Michael Egnor
June 11, 2018

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The scientists credited the bees with more intelligence than some humans. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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, __k-review, abstract thought, action potentials, brain, cat, intellect, justice, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, universals, will}

The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 24, 2017

Categories
Botany
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, Benjamin Libet, brain, craniopagus twins, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, documentary, Krista Hogan, matter, mind, neuroscience, physiology, Roger Sperry, soul, spirit, Tatiana Hogan, Thomistic dualism, Wilder Penfield}

What the Craniopagus Twins Teach Us About the Mind and the Brain

_{Michael Egnor
November 24, 2017

Botany, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Tatiana and Krista Hogan's shared and individual powers of mind are just what Thomistic dualism predicts. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 31, 2016

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __tedited, abstract thought, behaviorism, communication, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human language, immaterial mind, language, language organ, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, universals, words}

Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
August 31, 2016

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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I think that Noam Chomsky is fundamentally right, and I am skeptical of Daniel Everett's claim. Read More ›