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Existentialism as Biology
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Existentialism is compatible with a broadly biological vision of who we are as discussed by the authors, which is grounded in an analysis of concrete or individual possibility, which differs from standard conception.Abstract:
Existentialism is compatible with a broadly biological vision of who we are. This thesis is grounded in an analysis of “concrete” or “individual” possibility, which differs from standard conception...read more
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Cultural-Existential Psychology: The Role of Culture in Suffering and Threat
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Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior
TL;DR: In this paper, a renaissance of virtue is described, and the authors argue that there is no reason to be ashamed of moral character, moral behavior, and moral character and consistency.
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Subjective referral of the timing for a conscious sensory experience: a functional role for the somatosensory specific projection system in man.
TL;DR: A modified hypothesis is proposed that for a peripheral sensory input, the primary evoked response of sensory cortex to the specific projection (lemniscal) input is associated with a process that can serve as a 'time-marker'; and after delayed neuronal adequacy is achieved, there is a subjective referral of the sensory experience backwards in time so as to coincide with this initial ' time-marking'.
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Problems of the Self: Deciding to believe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the question of what it is to believe something, and then go on from that to discuss how far, if at all, belief can be related to decision and will.
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What Genes Can't Do
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