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Why Are People Like This? 2 Personology 1

Unfortunately, one of the best books I’ve found on Personology has not yet been made digital. Thankfully, it is available fairly cheaply used online, such as here: https://www.amazon.com/Toward-New-Personology-Evolutionary-Model/dp/0471515736. You won’t need it to learn from and enjoy this series of posts, but I like to keep my sources clear. Toward a New Personology: An Evolutionary Model is thoroughly philosophically intriguing and insightful. While I don’t … Continue reading Why Are People Like This? 2 Personology 1

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Why Are People Like This? Part 1: Series Introduction

People perplex me. Everyone is different, but also everyone is the same. Less figuratively, the unique patterns of actions and behaviors of all of the people there are fall into some common categories. Less technically, there seem to be “types” of people. For the past few years, I’ve been studying people and personality in an attempt to understand people. More honestly, I’ve been doing this … Continue reading Why Are People Like This? Part 1: Series Introduction

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Re: Extended cognition and feminism

Interesting article on extended cognition and feminism here. I came to figure out why e-cog seems to come with so much ethical baggage for a theory about how to understand cognition. I’m satisfied. The main point, that dualism and its descendants are really only plausible with a certain privileged position in the world. Elisabeth and Amo wrote at the same time as Descartes and couldn’t shake … Continue reading Re: Extended cognition and feminism

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