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Mind
Matters!
This is Grand Central Station for my various
philosophy essays. I have written some on logic and dialectics, some on
epistemology (theory of knowledge) and metaphysics, some on philosophy of science
and mathematics, and some on ethics, politics, and religion. I invite you to
peruse these pieces, share them with others, and feel free to comment!
(BTW, I understand that one of my favorite science
fiction authors, James Hogan, has just published a book of essays by this same
title. Just for the record, I did not swipe the title from him, but actually
have been using it for this web page for over a year now.)
Here are the links for the papers available as of December 24, 2005:
Metaphysics, Epistemology,
Philosophy of Science:
Paper on Dual-Aspect
Theory of Mind-Body
Review of Roger
Sperry's Science and Moral Priority
Review of John
Searle's Intentionality
Review of Fred Dretske's Naturalizing the Mind
Review of Benny Shanon's The Representational and
the Presentational
Review of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works
Review of Edward Pols' Mind Regained
Review of Robert
Kane's The Significance of Free Will
Review of Lakoff & Johnson's Philosophy in the Flesh
Review of
Dean Overman’s Accident and Self-Organization
Logic, Dialectics, Mathematics:
Paper on Frozen
Abstraction Fallacy
Review of Chris
Sciabarra's Ayn Rand the Russian Radical
Paper on the Relation
between Logic and Dialectics
Radicalism and
Respectability in the Real World
Paper on Zero Exponent
Numbers
Paper on Fractional
Exponent Numbers
A New
Procedure for Generating Pythagorean Triples
How the Martians Invented
Algebra
Mistaken Identity:
Long’s Conflation of Dialectics and Organicism—this essay was published
in Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Vol.
3, No. 2 (Spring 2002)
Ethics, Politics, Religion:
Resolving the
Government/Anarchism Issue—this essay was originally published in Reason (November 1973).
More on the
Government Controversy—regarding
the above essay, an unpublished letter to the editor of Reason and my unpublished response
Crime and
Punishment 1974—A Historical Snapshot of Libertarian-Objectivist Theorizing
Why the
State Cannot Legitimately Establish What Constitutes a Church
Separation of Church and State—a Logical Impossibility?
Whose Case for
Liberty is Correct—and So What?
Freedom,
Education, and the "New Right" (What Is the "New Right"?)
The Moral
Majority vs. God: How to Reconcile Libertarianism with the Judeo-Christian
Tradition
A Calm Look at
Abortion Arguments—this essay was originally published in Reason (September 1981) and republished
in Free Minds and Free Markets.
The Case Against
Egoistic, Libertarian Baby-Starving
Writing about the News
for Schoolchildren (including 12th grade and 6th grade versions of
"Lemme's and Gimme's"—Whose
Rights are Right? Age-appropriate writing about rights)
Why Union Scale is
Killing Our Work—a 1984 Open Letter to Nashville Recording Musicians
A Higher
Power for Atheists and Agnostics
Religion,
Philosophy, and Addiction
Thoughts on
Ethics and Spirituality
Tweaking the
Transpersonalists: Science vs. the New Mysticism
Is it Ever "Finished"? -- Life as a Non-Messianic
Process
The
Direction, not the Destination
Beyond Survival and
Flourishing: the Aristotelian “Tripod” and the Fullest Life
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