Philosophy & Ethics
- Law And Science: The Injustice Of Confessions
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Law And Science: The Injustice Of Confessions Confession may be good for the soul, but it is, I submit, positively harmful to the establishment of scientific truth in any legal venue. It is a notorious fact that some people will confess to crimes which t ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Sep 19 2009 - 4:59pm
- Law and Science: #2 The Chicken Little Mentality
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Law and Science: #2 The Chicken Little Mentality Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum Fiat justicia ruat caelum is often expressed as: 'let justice triumph or else the sky will fall'. It may be more literally translated as 'let justice triumph: let ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Sep 19 2009 - 4:47pm
- Death Of Man
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For many the turbulence of life are inexplicable and profoundly frustrating our faith in goodwill. What is the essence of personal meaning in a world where human relations are becoming increasingly fragile? What is the meaning of this world when only one i ...
Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Sep 23 2009 - 2:48pm
- Constituents of the Mind
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We now present the basic Constituents of the Mind (CoM): 1. Event/s (E) ...
Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Sep 24 2009 - 12:38pm
- Why We Stare At The Stars
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Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Sep 24 2009 - 1:36pm
- Time For Self-Reflection
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Does an ideal marriage exist? Before we start this discussion, we ought to, as a beginning, ask ourselves: What is an 'ideal marriage '? ...
Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Sep 24 2009 - 2:51pm
- Do You Really Care About The Human Race?
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Do you really care about the human race? I do, and probably I do more than you do. Well, not more than you, maybe-I do not know you personally!-; but I know where you come from: the class of human beings presently alive. And I think that most of the people ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 24 2009 - 5:52pm
- Considering Free Will: The Deterministic Part
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There is no question that we live in a deterministic universe. Despite some of the uncertainties and probabilities that are exhibited in the quantum world, the world we actually deal with is functionally deterministic. While we may encounter unpredictabl ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 2 2009 - 8:18pm
- Mustachioed, Melon and the Oval Table (Or Sarney, Women melon and Congress)- for brazilians
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For the Brazilians an abstract funny about the situation of their country: O Brasil é um país, no mínimo, pitoresco, essa é a razão de o número de cronistas, contistas ser tão grande, no entanto, a quantidade daquelesnque ganham a vida criando fábulas supe ...
Blog Post - Vinícius Leão de ... - Sep 29 2009 - 12:30pm
- Considering Free Will: Indoctrination And Training
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In the first article, we explored the determinism of the brain and considered that within the constraints of brain physiology it is clear that random or indeterminate processes cannot be responsible for behavior. Every action can be traced back to a cause ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 4 2009 - 4:05pm
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