I'm thinking about 'soft self-deception' - partial complicity in adopting valued beliefs, through biases in interpreting vague or indeterminate possibilities...
Fri 09 October at 04:24 AM

Books I've Read

Choice, behavioural economics and addiction

Choice, behavioural economics and addiction

by:

N Heather, RE Vuchinich

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Apes, language, and the human mind

Apes, language, and the human mind

by:

TJ Taylor, S Shanker, ES Savage-Rumbaugh

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The semantics of science

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What is the theory of relativity

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Science and philosophy: past and present

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Think

Think

by:

S Blackburn

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Spreading the word: groundings in the philosophy of language

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Lint

Lint

by:

S Aylett

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Physicalism, or something near enough

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Emergence or reduction?: essays on the prospects of nonreductive physicalism

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A treatise of human nature

A treatise of human nature

by:

D Hume

A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE BY DAVID HUME REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN
THREE VOLUMES AND EDITED, WITH AN ANALYTICAL INDEX, BY LA SELBY-BIGGE, MA FELLOW
AND LECTURER OF UNIVERSITY' AT THE CLARENDON PRESS II OCCC LXXXVHI sp?£, [  ...

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An enquiry concerning human understanding: a critical edition

An enquiry concerning human understanding: a critical edition

by:

D Hume

... An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding Page 4. ... ix Introduction: A History of the
Enquiry concerning Human Understanding xi ANote on the Text cv Advertisement ...

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The cognitive neurosciences

The cognitive neurosciences

by:

MS Gazzaniga

© 2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All Rights Reserved. No part of
this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means
(including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval)  ...

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The cognitive neurosciences III

The cognitive neurosciences III

by:

MS Gazzaniga, F Ramus

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How the leopard changed its spots: The evolution of complexity

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Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

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The evolution of co-operation. Penguin Books

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Emergence: From chaos to order

Emergence: From chaos to order

by:

JH Holland

... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holland, John H. (John Henry),
1929- Emergence : from chaos to order /John H. Holland, p. cm. ...

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Discipline & experience: the mathematical way in the scientific revolution

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The construction of modern science: mechanisms and mechanics

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Never at rest: a biography of Isaac Newton

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Dialectic: the pulse of freedom

Dialectic: the pulse of freedom

by:

R Bhaskar

Dialectic 'Bhaskar goes back to the beginning of the Western philosophical quest
and offers a brilliant refashioning of the dialectic. Because his 'dialectical
critical realism' is systematic, ontologically sustained and  ...

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Reclaiming reality: A critical introduction to contemporary philosophy

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The possibility of naturalism

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Philosophy and scientific realism

Philosophy and scientific realism

by:

R Bhaskar

PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENTIFIC REALISM Roy Bhaskar 1. Two sides of'knowledge' Any
adequare philosophy of science must find a way of grappling with this central
paradox of science: that men in theit social activity ptoduce know- ledge  ...

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Scientific realism and human emancipation

Scientific realism and human emancipation

by:

R Bhaskar

Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation Following on from Roy Bhaskar's first
two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism,
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation establishes the conception of  ...

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A realist theory of science

A realist theory of science

by:

R Bhashar, R Bhaskar

SIDALC - Sistema de Informacion y Documentacion Agropecuaria de las Americas.

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An essay on free will

An essay on free will

by:

P Van Inwagen

Page 1. PETER VAN INWAGEN AN ESSAY ON FREE WILL Page 2. An Essay on Free Will Page
3. Page 4. An Essay on FREE WILL PETER VAN INWAGEN CLARENDON PRESS • OXFORD ...

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An introduction to contemporary epistemology

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Choice over time

Choice over time

by:

J Elster, G Loewenstein

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The multiple self

The multiple self

by:

J Elster

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Making sense of Marx

Making sense of Marx

by:

J Elster

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The harvest of sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine

The harvest of sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine

by:

R Conquest

... THE HARVEST OF SORROW Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Kamine ROBERT CONQUEST
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS New York ... 2. r amines—Soviet Union—History. ...

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Economic Theory and Cognitive Science, Volume One: Microexplanation

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Economic theory and cognitive science: Microexplanation

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The tangled wing: Biological constraints on the human spirit

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Going sane: Maps of happiness

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Monogamy

Monogamy

by:

A Phillips

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On kissing, tickling, and being bored: Psychoanalytic essays on the unexamined life

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A neural substrate of prediction and reward

A neural substrate of prediction and reward

by:

PR Montague, P Dayan, W Schultz

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The descent of madness: evolutionary origins of psychosis and the social brain

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Decisions, uncertainty, and the brain: The science of neuroeconomics

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In my father's house: Africa in the philosophy of culture

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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers

by:

KA Appiah

... KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH: COSMOPOLITANISM, ETHICS IN A WORLD OF STRANGERS 1 ... Appiah tenta
dar conta destes dois problemas em seu livro “Cosmopolitanism, Ethics ...

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The aim and structure of physical theory

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Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

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A model-theoretic realist interpretation of science

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On human nature

On human nature

by:

EO Wilson

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Fear of knowledge: Against relativism and constructivism

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Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis

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