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Rational Mechanics and the Mind

Jeff Carreira January 16, 2010 Philosophy 3 Comments

I want to post one more time before getting back to a few last words on John Dewey and conscious evolution. I have been doing a little research into the development of modern physics because …

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Does anything like a mind exist?

Jeff Carreira January 12, 2010 Philosophy 29 Comments

I still have a few more posts on Dewey that I want to put up that lead to an exciting model of cultural evolution, but Carl’s comment to my last post inspired me to write …

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William James, B.F. Skinner and the Stream of Consciousness Revisited

Jeff Carreira July 23, 2009 Philosophy 8 Comments

In an earlier post I described similarities between the ideas of John Dewey and B.F. Skinner, I now will to do the same with William James. Both James and Skinner dubbed their own philosophies “Radical.” …

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Is there any Intelligence in the Universe?

Jeff Carreira July 20, 2009 Philosophy 21 Comments

I have been reading more about Behaviorism, including the article that Carl sent us by Robert Epstein, so that we could get a little clearer here about exactly what we are looking into.  Maybe I …

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Freewill, To Believe or Not To Believe

Jeff Carreira July 16, 2009 Philosophy 37 Comments

I saw that both Carl and Brian noticed my use of the phrase “caved in” in expressing the fact that I was not convinced about the Behaviorist view. There is so much fantastic insight in …

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The Freewill of a Creative System

Jeff Carreira July 13, 2009 Philosophy 12 Comments

I am amazed by all of the insightful comments on my last post. It seems that many of us are comfortable with the idea that perhaps freewill is not a characteristic of an individual, but …

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The Indignity of B.F. Skinner

Jeff Carreira July 9, 2009 Philosophy 35 Comments

Warning: This post represents my very first thoughts about the Behaviorism of B.F. Skinner and is probably equally likely to offend both fans and foes alike. Those who follow this blog may realize that my …

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John Dewey and B.F. Skinner

Jeff Carreira May 13, 2009 Philosophy 3 Comments

I have been thinking more and re-reading Dewey’s paper on the reflex arc and wanted to add a second post with fuller thoughts. At the end of my last post I mentioned that Dewey’s conception …

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Free Will: A case of mistaken identity?

Jeff Carreira April 28, 2009 Philosophy 13 Comments

My last two posts may have seemed like a diversion from the exciting discussion on the existence of human free will, (Take a look at the string of excellent comments by Carl and Ted Howard …

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