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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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