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Bill’s 2024 Year in Books
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Bill DeSmedt
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Passaic NJ, The United States
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Larry Niven, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Blish
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August 2008
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Dualism Redux!
Celebrating (if that's the word for it) the tenth anniversary of my technothriller Dualism, I was moved to bare the philosophical underbelly of that work on Academia.edu.
A foretaste:
Though admittedly a tough nut to crack, I’ve never been a big fan of the “interactionist” objection to Cartesian dualism (a.k.a. substance dualism) — even going so far as to design a thought experiment aimed at challen Read more of this blog post »
A foretaste:
Though admittedly a tough nut to crack, I’ve never been a big fan of the “interactionist” objection to Cartesian dualism (a.k.a. substance dualism) — even going so far as to design a thought experiment aimed at challen Read more of this blog post »
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