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Philosopher | Corning, , | Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Punishment, Criminal Law/Justice, Neuroscience, Phil Mind, Ethics

Joined March 2014

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    Hard to believe it's been nearly a year since my exchange with | Just deserts: Can we be held morally responsible for our actions? Yes, says Daniel Dennett. No, says Gregg Caruso

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    Public discourse is full of outrage, but it's not always noble. People often express outrage to alleviate feelings of guilt or to buffer their self-image as morally impressive people. Selfish uses of outrage make it a less reliable signal of injustice.

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  4. 02.02.2020 Today’s date is a rare palindrome that hasn't happened in over 900 years. (1) it's an eight-digit palindrome: 02022020—many palindrome dates are only symmetrical (e.g. 1-10-2011). (2) even more rare, it works whether you write it as "Month/Day/Year" or "Day/Month/Year”

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  6. Today is a sad day for the UK and Europe.

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    Jan 31

    A single genetic mutation in a woman who evaded Alzheimer’s may point to new ways to treat the disease Interesting piece

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  9. This author’s name is “a priori”—and he’s not even an armchair philosopher, he’s a neuroscientist.

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  10. Making progress on the book!

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  11. And unlike the rock personas of Ziggy Stardust, Percy Thrillington, Starchild/Dr Funkenstein, and Buster Poindexter, Waits has remained in character his entire career. The only other person who as come close is Sun Ra, but he really believed he was an angel from Saturn. [2/2]

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  12. If I could be any fictional character, it would be Tom Waits! The persona Waits has created over the years is as much a character, a fiction, a myth, as any work of art. [1/2]

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  15. Amia Srinivasan: the Oxford philosopher on animal rights, abortion and the far-right | Meet the young thinker in one of Britain’s most prestigious academic roles

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    Jan 27

    Symposium on Joseph Gottlieb’s “Verbal Disputes in the Theory of Consciousness”

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    Jan 26

    It's the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I was commissioned by to write an essay commemorating this occasion. Of course, this was an unusually daunting request. Here it is.

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  18. Free Will: Real or Illusion - A Debate with Christian List, Gregg Caruso, and Cory Clark | I unfortunately had to change the URL for this. The new one is:

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    Jan 8

    This is a really interesting discussion of some issues in housing policy w Katherine Levine Einstein, and including the so-called NIMBY phenomenon and the mechanisms through which it has impact...'Neighborhood Defenders' by The Weeds

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    NEW Free Will: Real or Illusion - A Debate | with contributions by Christian List, Gregg Caruso, and Cory Clark | This is a preprint of an exchange published in the new issue of The Philosopher (2020) |

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  21. The Problem That Psychology Can’t Shake | Ten years after a seminal paper laid bare psychology’s white, affluent, Western skew, not much has change | WEIRD| via ⁦⁩ |

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