Everyday Ethics

I’m no fan of going to the dentist, mostly based on having a storehouse of painful memories involving my childhood dentist forcibly removing countless teeth from my tiny jaw without providing sufficient anesthesia.  As a result, I put off having my wisdom teeth removed for approximately ten years.  When I finally decided to have them [...]

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In a prior article, we defended the position that when it comes to describing the phenomenology of human intentional actions, folk psychology offers a more accurate account than reductive neuroscience.  This is not to say that we ought to abandon biological accounts of mind, only that the limitations of these accounts suggest that we ought [...]

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As cognitive science has become increasingly sophisticated, we have been able to give much more intricate explanations of human cognition.  One important side effect of this achievement has been the debunking of folk psychology and a tendency among philosophers of mind to disregard folk accounts of human cognition as overly simplistic and not in accordance [...]

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Most people generally take for granted that there is such a thing as a self, and that they have one.  The three major monotheisms would be lost without the concept of self, and most of us would have no idea how to describe who we are without making reference to something like this entity.  However, [...]

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