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87Human freedom as a reality-producing illusionThe Monist 86 (2): 200-219. 2003.This is a good time for determinists. One hundred and fifty years of Darwinian thought have undermined belief in the exceptional status of human beings. Biological reductionism is in the ascendant. One of its most recent manifestations—evolutionary psychology, which has been widely influential both within and beyond academe—argues that individual behaviour and even social institutions are expressions of genes, the vast majority of which are common to humans and the higher primates. The implicit,…Read more
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64My brain made me do it, your honourThe Philosophers' Magazine 55 (55): 31-41. 2011.It is evident that every moment of our life we depend on having some kind of brain in working order. But it does not follow from this that we are a brain in working order.
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61Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of NeuromythologyThorverton UK: Imprint Academic. 2004.Taking a series of key words such as calculation, language, information and memory, Professor Tallis shows how their misuse has lured a whole generation into...
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49The unnatural selection of consciousnessThe Philosophers' Magazine 46 (46): 28-35. 2009.Long before self-awareness, memory, foresight and powers of conscious deliberation emerge to give an advantage over those creatures that lack those things, there is a more promising alternative to consciousness at every step of the way: more efficient unconscious mechanisms, which seem equally or more likely to be thrown up by spontaneous variation. If you had to undertake something really difficult – for example growing in utero a brain with all its connexions in place – consciousness is the la…Read more
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43Tye on 'the subjective qualities of experience': A critiquePhilosophical Investigations 12 (July): 217-222. 1989.
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37A Cure for TheorrheaCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 3 (1): 7-39. 1989.FROM PRAGUE TO PARIS: A CRITIQUE OF STRUCTURALIST AND POST?STRUCTURALIST THOUGHT by J. G. Merquior New York: Methuen, 1986. 286 pp., $12.95 (paper).
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25Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary TheorySpringer. 2016.This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self.
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