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A review of the book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

https://www.euvolution.com/neoeugenics/human_modern_denial.htm

evolutionary psychology, or behavior genetics, and especially if you are interested in who is winning the debate, why it is such an emotional issuethe nature-nurture debatethis bo
Pinker makes a strong case for evolutionary psychology but then goes on to deny genetic racial differences--or almost so. Eugenics

The Idea of Mind

http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/tidom.html

many years. In human psychology it has more kinship with myth then it does with truth. It is this myth making capacity of scientifically authored speculations that concerns us. It

Not Related! A Big-Braned Podcast

https://notrelated.xyz/

What aspects of our psychology seem irrational are often mechanisms based in the wisdom of real-life risk, and far more trust-worthy than the recommendations of psychologists and

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findings in social psychology is “stereotype accuracy.” The stereotype that Jews are rich or Jamaicans are good sprinters reflects statistical realities about the distribution of

Proto-World and the Language Organ

http://www.zompist.com/langorg.htm

Words : The Science and Psychology of Second-Language Acquisition , 1995) find no good evidence that 2L acquisition becomes impossible at any given age. Children do better than ad

A passion is not removed the same way as a sin

https://www.oodegr.com/english/psyxotherap/sexual_addiction.htm

findings of scientific psychology and the spiritual counsels of the Orthodox tradition can work hand in hand. This is especially true in our day when incidents of addictive and co

Smart drugs for academics? Modafinil-popping dons...

https://www.modafinil.wiki/article/academics.html

professor of neuropsychology at Cambridge University, was taken aback when a colleague offered her a dose of Modafinil - a "wakefulness" drug prescribed to people suffering from v

Peter Suber, "Metaphilosophy, Topics"

https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/meta/topics.htm

to power, individual psychology, cultural determinism, or linguistic confusion? (These would be non-immanent or reductive explanations; they are sometimes called "external critiqu

Psychic Liberation Manifesto

http://www.intuitionnetwork.org/PsychicLiberation.htm

to infuse the field of psychology with an understanding psychic ability. The very name "psychology," implies a discipline of knowledge dedicated to studying the psyche or soul. Ho

Logical Empiricism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2011 Edition)

https://plato.stanford.edu/archIves/fall2011/entries/logical-empiricism/

from philosophy. And psychology had just separated from philosophy or was in the process of doing so. Yes, there were polymaths who could and did pursue a science and philosophy p

Quantavolution and Catastrophes A collection of sixteen volumes by Alfred de Grazia

https://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QuantaSeries.htm

adequately with the psychology of Moses, and therefore have portrayed fully the workings of his mind. No study has properly embraced Moses in his two great capacities as a manager
Quantavolution and Catastrophe: Fifteen volumes of human and natural history by Professor Alfred de Grazia and collaborators, including Livio Stecchini, Earl Milton, Ralph Juergens

Gerd Gigerenzer

http://statlit.org/Gigerenzer.htm

the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics. Collectively, the essays demonstrate why the frame in which statistics are communicated is essential for broader understanding a


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