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Our Evolutionary Crisis

Jeff Carreira October 3, 2009 Philosophy 22 Comments

I certainly want to continue with our discussion and I want to explore the profound ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce further, but first I wanted to say a few words in general that I have been …

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What is a “something” anyway? further consideration of Darwin and Dewey

Jeff Carreira May 22, 2009 Philosophy 3 Comments

In my last post I wrote about Darwin’s recognition that the idea of separate species was just that, an idea. And, as Brian astutely commented on that post, that doesn’t mean that there is no …

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Darwin and the Illusion of Separate Species

Jeff Carreira May 15, 2009 Philosophy 6 Comments

The American Pragmatists were all profoundly influenced by Darwin’s publication of “On the Origin of Species.” The originators of Pragmatism, including Charles Sanders Peirce who coined the term and William James who popularized it, were …

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Conscious Evolution and Free Will?

Jeff Carreira April 20, 2009 Philosophy 14 Comments

Part of the controversy over Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has always been its deterministic tone. Darwin saw evolution as happening through the combination of chance variation and natural selection. The theory goes something like …

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Charles Darwin and the directionality of Evolution

Jeff Carreira April 11, 2009 Philosophy 75 Comments

I have often heard and have at times gotten into arguments about whether the process of evolution has directionality.  And this argument has seen lots of air time in the media recently. I realized the …

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The Curious Case of John Elof Boodin vs. Charles Darwin

Jeff Carreira April 5, 2009 Philosophy 13 Comments

The American philosophy of Pragmatism was in many ways a direct response to Darwin’s publication of “On the Origin of Species.” The early Pragmatists were trying to apply the same logic to philosophy that Darwin …

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John Dewey’s Insight

Jeff Carreira February 23, 2009 Philosophy 4 Comments

John Dewey was younger than William James, but they were contemporaries. Dewey was profoundly influenced by reading James’ book “Principles of Psychology” and became, along with James and Charles Sanders Peirce, the third of a …

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