Humanities & Evolution
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HUMANITIES VIEW
CONSILIENCE ON WHOSE TERMS?
FREE WILL VERSUS DETERMINISM
Humanities view of evolution
How different the evolution of human nature looks from a humanities' point of view. If we insist we're conscious and have free will, what does that imply about evolution?
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- Common sense vs. Darwinism
- New philosophy of evolution
- Introduction
- "Neurasthenia"--we need it now
- Prep for "New Trends in Evolutionary Biology" conference
- Kahneman's selfs include an important "planning" self
- To understand the self, experiment with a new theory of evolution
- Make evolution part of the humanities
- Darwin's purely physical theory denies the possibility of "volition"
- A thought experiment: what evolves is really an intelligent genome
Consilience on whose terms?
How should the humanities respond to science's offer to rebase the humanities on physics and darwinism ("consilience")? By coming up with a consilience of their own, to base science on.
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