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Re: JH & Lafont on liberal eugenics: file name change

Gary E. Davis — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:18:49 GMT

The file of JH's 2001 discussion of his _Future of Human Nature_ and Lafont's reply needed a file name change. It's now:

What's the nature of ethical self-understanding?

Gary E. Davis — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:52:17 GMT

This kind of question is being pursued these days in several modes: evolutionary psychology, neuroethics, and moral intuitionism/sentimentalism. Long ago and

"Human Nature and Autonomy"

Gary E. Davis — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:11:02 GMT

Daniel Henrich's 2011 discussion, relative to Habermas' critique of liberal eugenics, is now available at:

More on _The Future of Human Nature_

Gary E. Davis — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:56:57 GMT

I do hope to hear back from Daniel, because issues of "liberal eugenics" will become only more timely as genomic bioscience continues its accomplishments.

Habermas on _The Future of Human Nature_

Gary E. Davis — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:45:19 GMT

I came across a lecture that JH gave in Paris, 2001, soon after publishing _The Future of Human Nature_, in which he gave a condensed version of his book's

50th Anniversary Symposium on _The Structural Transformation of the

Phyo Win Latt — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:37:23 GMT

_Political Theory_ December 2012; Vol. 40, No. 6 NOW available online: The below Table of Contents is available online at:

sorry, re: "JH and difficulties of governing the EU"

Gary E. Davis — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:04:34 GMT

I forgot: The Yahoo! software doesn't transmit embedded links (and screws up punctuation). Here's my posting (a little revised) as blog entry (including

JH and difficulties of governing the EU

Gary E. Davis — Fri, 25 May 2012 05:34:58 GMT

Only this week has JH's The Crisis of the European Union become available in the U.S. (Polity delightfully divides its publication dates into "U.S." and "ROW"

a note about evolutionarity of social development

Gary E. Davis — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:29:04 GMT

Within professional philosophy, the times are neo-Darwinian, if not post-Darwinian (e.g., P. Godfrey-Smith, Darwinian Populations,ch. 8: "Cultural Evolution"),

P&SC journal "Symposium on Critique and Disclosure"

Gary E. Davis — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:28:15 GMT

The current issue of _Philosophy & Social Criticism_ would be especially interesting to Habermasians. (After the following, I've appended a note.) Philosophy &

a weak naturalism of evolving psychotheoretical conversation

Gary E. Davis — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:29:54 GMT

Coincidently, Edge.com this month sponsors interest in how *contemporary* social psychology might best be understand (*as* contemporary): "The Social

Is deliberation basically psychological or interpersonal?

Gary E. Davis — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:57:21 GMT

I was being facetious when I hoped that my comment to Sperber and Mercier had some effect on the NYTimes article (previous posting). In fact, Mercier's and

Re: Habermas and evolutionary psychology

Gary E. Davis — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:51:54 GMT

Interestingly, a New York Times article on Sperber & Mercier's approach to argumentation ends by Mercier acknowledging the importance of deliberative

a few typos (in case you care)

Gary E. Davis — Fri, 13 May 2011 23:55:23 GMT

re: a Habermasian sense of cultural evolution I'm amazed by not seeing typos until I receive the posting. One might wish to do something Derridean with my

a Habermasian sense of cultural evolution

Gary E. Davis — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:05:24 GMT

I feel that Ingram's synoptic review of Jürgen Habermas: Key Concepts, ed. by Barbara Fultner (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=23629) is the best brief