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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.

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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.

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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 18th, 1936

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