Author: Gualtiero Piccinini

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Citizendium is a project for a more sophisticated version of Wikipedia. It seems to be a worthwhile cause, but it requires the volunteer effort of specialists. Below is an email circulated by Larry Sanger, who is behind the Citizendium effort. I’d be interested in hearing your opinions about the feasibility of such a project.—

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Pretty cool stuff.

As far as I know, the modern debate ab out folk psychology begins with Wilfrid Sellars’s view that folk psychology is a proto-scientific theory.  For a while, the whole debate was over whether such a theory was mostly correct or incorrect, reducible or irreducible to lower-level theories.  Then in the …

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Apparently human females go into heat, contrary to a common assumption.  The evidence is that professional lap dancers receive significantly more tips during the phase following ovulation, i.e., when they are fertile.  (From an article in the last issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.)