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February 22, 2012 A while ago, I posted some advice for applicants to graduate schools . Today, The Religious Studies Project has posted a revised and expanded version of this advice that includes links to other online resources for grad school applicants. Here is an excerpt of that new post: Generally speaking, the key to graduate admissions is fit —which means roughly that your interests are aligned with those of the department. So start browsing department websites.Index - Welcome - RichardDawkins.net
[Journalists] seem to feel let down when they discover that the real people aren't anything like the way they so relentlessly portray us; as if, since they've gone to the trouble of inventing extravagant caricatures of us, we should at least have the decency to live up to them in real life.
I briefly discussed the illusion of free will in both The End of Faith and The Moral Landscape . I have since received hundreds of questions and comments from readers and learned just where the sticking points were in my original arguments. I am happy to now offer my final thoughts on the subject in the form of a short book, Free Will , that can be read in a single sitting. The question of free will touches nearly everything we care about. Morality, law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, feelings of guilt and personal accomplishment—most of what is distinctly human about our lives seems to depend upon our viewing one another as autonomous persons, capable of free choice.
Sam Harris
Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell (Viking, 2006), Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon &Schuster, 1995), is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy , and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He lives with his wife in , and has a daughter, a son, and three grandchildren. He was born in in 1942, the son of a historian by the same name, and received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He then went to to work with Ryle, under whose supervision he completed the D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965.
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