Inventory of Intuitions on Science, Religion, Life and Mind - the Past

Inventory of Intuitions - Current Semester

Preface

Introduction

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Science and Pseudoscience: the Search for a Gatekeeper

Astrology - It's All in the Stars

Phrenology - the Bumps on Your Head

Parapsychology - ESP and Paranormal Phenomena

Scientific Creationism in the Courts

Seeking Scientific Creationism

Angelic Science

New Age Resonances

Chinese Acupuncture - A Useful Theory

Saucers and Sex - UFOlogy and Sexology

Chaos and Paradigms

Lessons about Gatekeeping

Gatekeeper Matrix - for Exam Review

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Science and Religion

Separation by Cognitive Standards

Separation by Reference

Separation by Attitude

Separation by Personal Improvement

Separation by Fact and Value

Separation by Foundation

Separation by Explanation

Separation Principles Matrix - for Exam Review

The Mystery of Our Being: Limits of Causal Explanation?

Cosmology with a New Purpose?

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The Meaning of "Life": Analyzing Living Thing

Groundrules: Evaluating Analytical Definitions

Two Ancient Definitions: Thales and Aristotle

Vitalistic and Mechanistic Intuitions

Naive Vitalism and Naive Mechanism

Transition to Modern Definitions

Introducing Organicism and Biological Functionalism

Two Kinds of Explanation

Two Analyses of Function

Which Functions are Organic?

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Is a Science of the Mind Possible?

Are You a Computer?

Three Sources of Resistance to the Computer Model of the Mind

Dualism and Thinking Things

Digression: Separation by Immaterial Causation

Behaviorism

Machine Functionalism

Mind Matrix - for Exam Review

School Board Problems

Appendix: Two Court Decisions on Defining Religion

Unresolved Questions: Concluding Bibliographical Essay

Dualism Quiz - URLs for Required Pages

The Analysis of Personal Identity (Required Reading for Hour Exam #3 and Dualism Quiz)

Numbers and Minds: A Question

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