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

“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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More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”

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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Why Human Reason Didn’t “Evolve”

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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Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”

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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Why Animals Don’t Speak

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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Talking Animals and Human Exceptionalism

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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The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

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

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

Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution

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

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