From the monthly archives:

July 2007

Eagleton on Bakhtin

Eagleton on Bakhtin

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Engineers figure out how to harness the power of technology; economists figure out how to harness the power of incentives. Our prosperity relies on both.

Engineers figure out how to harness the power of technology; economists figure out how to harness the power of incentives. Our prosperity relies on both.…

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The idiot’s brain [Neurophilosophy]

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This print shows the “brain of someone described as an idiot”. Published in the Journal of Mental Science, the illustration is by George Edward …

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Dawkins’ Flawed View of Religion

For Richard Dawkins, people like religion the way moths like flames. But he misses religion’s real adaptive value, argues David Sloan Wilson… more

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