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Truer Words: Expressing a Wish to Abandon External Reality Without Paying a Price

In my October 23rd, 2013, blog post, I pulled from the work of philosopher John Searle as a way of helping us understand the growing resentment being directed toward biology and nature. In this earlier blog post I make the argument that the lion’s share of this Resentment is coming from the ideologies of postmodernism […]

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Understanding the Growing Resentment Directed Toward Biology and Nature—The Philosophy of John Searle

In an earlier blog post I mentioned a book by Robin Dunbar and his colleagues entitled Evolutionary Psychology. Dunbar et al. draw heavily from the work of philosopher John Searle. Using Searle’s work as a background, Dunbar et al. make an observation that stunned me. Consider the following quote: Searle argues that language and ToM […]

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FHL Foundation Makes Fall 2013 Grant Awards

At their October 8th, 2013, board meeting, the board of the FHL Foundation approved the following grant awards: Advocacy Inc. (Guardianship Project) – $25,000 Bridges Project for Education (College Preparedness Training) – $25,000 NM Ronald McDonald House Charity (Housing) – $25,000 Conference of Southwest Foundations (Annual Meeting) – $5,000 Congratulations to our Fall 2013 Grant […]

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Quick Look: Emotional attachment to robots could affect outcome on battlefield | UW Today

Emotional attachment to robots could affect outcome on battlefield | UW Today. by Doree Armstrong An interesting twist on Human – Machine attachments from the military arena. Here’s a quote from the article: It’s becoming more common to have robots sub in for humans to do dirty or sometimes dangerous work. But researchers are finding […]

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Psychology and Philanthropy’s Attack on Darwin and Evolution Theory (part II of II)

I ended part I by simply asking, “What’s going on here?” In part I, I pointed to two major voices—one in philanthropy, the other in counseling psychology—talking about paradigm shifts, building consensus around social problems (which one author calls “consenualizing”), and connecting. In part II, I’d like to take a stab at answering the question, “What’s […]

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