I’ve already mentioned how some philosophers are trying to offer pseudo-arguments to the affect that the APA anti-discrimination policy does not apply to hiring practices of religious institutions that de facto discriminate against homosexuals. David Hoekema (Calvin College) is another one of these — he has written yet another letter …
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(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) Well it’s been a while since I have posted anything here…I have been so busy with Consciousness Online (which by the way was a HUGE success!Thanks to all who participated, including our very own Gualtiero! I am also happy to announce that the Journal of Consciousness Studies …
Greg Johnson (Drexel University) has completed an almost final draft of an article on
Next week, at the Pacific APA, a petition on discrimination will be presented to the APA. The petition asks the APA to either enforce its own policy against discrimination (specifically, de facto discrimination against homosexuality by certain religious institutions that require their employees to commit to having no sex outside …
European scientists are building silicon chips containing large scale artificial neural networks (200,000 neurons and 50 million synapses, scalable to a billion neurons and 10 to the 13 synapses). (Thanks to Neal Anderson for the link.) IBM scientists and working on “cognitive computing”, an attempt to build a new generation of …
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