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In reply to this post from late last night in which I took a first pass at trying to sketch out my views on fate, George writes: Dan, Again I find myself thanking you for this blog. Good blogging is all for naught without good readers (and especially without good readers who contribute excellently and [...]
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Character As Fate And Environment As Variability
August 21st, 2009 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Featured, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Social Psychology, Why I Am Not A Christian 
Tags: Determinism, Fate, Free Will, Nature vs. Nurture, Oeidpus Rex, Philosophy of Personal Identity, Psychological Determinism, Psychology of Action, Robert Solomon, Self 
9 Comments »10 Recommended Philosophy Of Mind Articles
August 1st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Anderson Brown gives a really interesting list of 10 classic articles in the philosophy of mind which cover (a couple more than) 10 pivotal arguments. I’ve heard of almost all of them and all the philosophers on the list are extremely famous, major contributors to the field. I especially love this one article’s point: [...]
Are Certain Beliefs and Desires The Same Things?
July 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Eric Schwitzgebel makes an interesting case that in some cases believing and desiring may be the same thing, or at least close enough to each other as to be inseparable from each other: In the usual taxonomy of mental states (usual, that is, among contemporary analytic philosophers of mind) belief is one thing, desire quite [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind Tags: Beliefs, Desires, Eric Schwitzgebel, Erosiac Desire, Mental States No Comments »
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