What you can imagine depends on what you know.
DANIEL DENNETTI think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
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If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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