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    A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Understanding the Honor Killer
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 25 (2): 32-42. 2019.
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    What Kind of Healing Does Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Foster?
    People: International Journal of Social Sciences 5 (3): 1-11. 2019.
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    Mark Johnson is widely regarded as a major figure in philosophical embodied cognition theory in the U.S., and as co-founder with George Lakoff of conceptual metaphor theory. These two theories, along with Johnson's deep rootedness in classical American Pragmatism, provide the themes for the analyses developed in both Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding and The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought: The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality and Art. T…Read more
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    Addiction: Beyond Disease and Choice
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 20 (2): 65-76. 2013.
    While the addiction treatment industry holds steadfast to the idea that addiction is a disease, and the choice theorists maintam to the contrary that it is justa choice, the truth is not as simple as either. The idea of addiction is a social construct that evolved over the 20th century to encompass increasingly morephenomena, while becoming increasingly conceptually less clear. Taking a complex dynamic systems approach, rather than relying on either the obscure disease notion or the naive choice…Read more
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    Response to Glenn’s “The Very Idea of Free Will”
    Southwest Philosophy Review 27 (2): 23-26. 2011.
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    Despite the fact that the reductio ad absurdum argument is a valid deductive form, while the slippery slope argument is most often presented as a fallacious form of inductive argument, the two argument types bear some striking similarities. Investigation of these similarities reveals some more universal difficulties in the teaching of informal logic, and, in particular the difference between strong informal arguments and fallacious ones