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AskPhilosophers.org
Peter Lipton was active and as sparkling as ever in these forums.
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Jamie Whyte
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Think Humanist
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Comment is free: Tome truths
"The publication of just six anti-religious books has managed to provoke outrage from the devout - this reveals a profound insecurity."
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Medawar review of The Phenomenon of Man
"Yet the greater part of it, I shall show, is nonsense, tricked out with a variety of metaphysical conceits, and its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself."
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence A.M. Turing
Turing, A.M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59, 433-460.
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Why Won't God Heal Amputees?
Excellent teasing apart of the hypocrisy and illogic of mainstream and extreme religion, with plenty of bilbical quotation. Why have health insurance? Why do gods only cure cancer?
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"Cargo Cult Science" - by Richard Feynman
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of ideas, e.g. that a piece of of rhinoceros horn increases potency. A method was discovered for separating the ideas which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it.
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A.C. Grayling - Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, Univ. of London
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The knot in the brain
"Philosophers since Descartes have striven to understand the connections between the material world, the body and the mind. Have brain scans brought us to the verge of an answer?" Grayling is brilliant.
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The Brights' Net - Home Page
Be a bright
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Bad Thoughts Comments
Reader comments about the book "Bad Thoughts" subtitled "a guide to clear thinking." Excellent book, and Jamie Whyte is sharp as a razor.
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The World of Richard Dawkins
Unofficial site about the work of Richard Dawkins
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British Humanist Association
More than an alternative to religion.
more fromwww.humanism.org.uk
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