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The Illusion of Freedom and Thought

Jeff Carreira December 23, 2010 Philosophy 9 Comments

Inevitably if we start to talk about social conditioning the topic of human freewill comes into play. When you begin to recognize, as John Dewey did, that so much – if not all – of …

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Are We All Institutionalized?

Jeff Carreira December 2, 2010 Philosophy 8 Comments

We might be. I wanted to share some more thoughts as I read John Searle’s new book “Making the Social World“And one of the things that has struck me profoundly about social reality is the …

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Why is Barack Obama the President of the United States?

Jeff Carreira November 11, 2010 Philosophy 7 Comments

I want to continue the discussion of how the social world is created by posing the question, “Why is Barack Obama the President of the United States?” The most popular answer to that question would …

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Reality or Social Reality

Jeff Carreira November 4, 2010 Philosophy 8 Comments

I am currently beginning to study the work of the philosopher John R. Searle especially his work on how social reality is created. He starts from the fact that there are many things that are …

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