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As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

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The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in t...

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I am drawn to a fourth alternative, natural teleology, or teleological bias, as an account of the ex...

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Thomas NagelMind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its un...

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Charles Taylor (philosopher)Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a...

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Richard DawkinsThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causat...

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