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Humanism and the Enlightenment
On this site
Sketch of Condorcet's Sketch
for an Historical Picture of the Progress of the
Human Mind by Caspar Hewett
Henri de Saint-Simon: The Great Synthesist by Caspar Hewett
Auguste Comte – High Priest of Positivism
by Caspar Hewett
Progress of the
Human Mind: From Enlightenment to Postmodernism, summary
of workshop by Caspar Hewett
The Three Cs and the Notion of Progress:
Copernicus, Condorcet, Comte by Caspar Hewett
John Locke’s Theory of Knowledge
(An Essay Concerning Human Understanding) by Caspar Hewett
Life of Voltaire by Caspar Hewett
About John Locke (1632-1704)
John Locke Wikipedia entry
John Locke -
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
John Locke -
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
John
Locke: "The Philosopher of Freedom." biography
John Locke -
Philosophy Pages
John Locke:
Life & Work
John Locke
- Oregan State University pages
A Biography of John Locke
John Locke - Victorian Web
John Locke Biography
Biography of John Locke
- Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Locke page -
Religion and Liberty, Acton Institute
John Locke Bibliography
By John Locke
An
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
The
Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690)
A
Letter Concerning Toleration
Of
the Conduct of the Understanding
Some Thoughts Concerning
Education (1693)
About Voltaire
Voltaire Wikipedia entry
Voltaire on the Fact Index
Voltaire
– on the World Philosophy Series
Five biographies of Voltaire by
Clarence Darrow, Robert Green, Jim Herrick, Joseph Lewis and Thomas S. Vernon
(www.positiveatheism.org)
Voltaire quotations
Voltaire’s Life and Works on
bartleby.com
Voltaire
and Frederick the Great from Books and Characters, French and English
by Lytton Strachey, 1915, edited by Geoffrey Sauer
Works by Voltaire
Candide
Poem on the Lisbon Disaster
(1756) by Voltaire edited and translated by Joseph McCabe
A
Treatise on Toleration (1763)
The Philosophical Dictionary
Selected and Translated by H.I. Woolf
Study Guide for Voltaire's
Philosophical Dictionary
Letters on Newton
from the Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778
On Francis Bacon
from Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778
Letters from Voltaire, a selection
Micromegas
Works by Condorcet
Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind (1795)
Online Library of Liberty
On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship (1790)
Online Library of Liberty
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Christopher Badcock
Christopher Badcock has spoken at two previous
Great Debate public discussions: The
Great Debate - Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy in March 2001 and
Determined to Survive? The Great Debate
- Freedom, Determinism and the Gene in June 2000.
The
Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy
Evolutionary
Psychology: A Critical Introduction by Christopher Badcock: Polity book details
Order Evolutionary Psychology from Amazon
Christopher Badcock: Personal
profile
Christopher Badcock:
homepage at LSE
LSE Department of Sociology
Of Mice and Men by Christopher Badcock
Christopher Badcock:
author biography
The Green Man review of
Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction, December 2002
The Freedom of
The Gene by Christopher Badcock, LA Publications - Sociological Notes
The Freedom of The Gene: How
Genetics Challenges Socialisation Theory by Christopher Badcock
Libertarian Alliance
Sociological Notes Index
Christopher Badcock:
list of books
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition
Research
Thoughts on Nature
Help for names' sakes
by John Whitfield
Handbook
of Evolutionary Psychology:
Ideas, Issues, and Applications by Charles Crawford and Dennis Krebs
Handbook
of Evolutionary Psychology abstract
Emotion,
Evolution and Rationality abstracts
Evolution and Psychotherapy,
May 8 1999
Psychodarwinism:
The New Synthesis of Freud and Darwin:
review by Anthony Bullivant
Theories:
Evolutionary Psychology on
MFTSource
Dad's
the Id, Mom's the Ego
Imprinted Genes
Suggest your Cortex may derive from your Mother by Gail Vines,
New Scientist 3 May 1997
The
Socialization of the Professions and the Humane University:
Reconsidering the Social Contract For a Scholarly Community
A
Forlorn Hope: Psychoanalysis in Search of Scientific Respectability
Review of The Evolution of the Emotion Processing Mind by Robert Langs
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Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi Page
Amazon.co.uk: books by Frank Furedi
frankfuredi.com
Professor Frank Furedi,
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research,
University of Kent
Our
unhealthy obsession with sickness, spiked-online, March 2005
Symbol clash
the PARLIAMENT magazine, 31 January 2005
The swastika: intolerance is not a way to engage with a symbol of hatred. [pdf format]
The children who won't grow up by Frank Furedi, July 2003
Epidemic of fear by Frank Furedi, March 2002
Assessment versus intellect
The demise of proper essays and exams has made degree inflation a fact of life, says Frank Furedi
Tuesday March 25, 2003, The Guardian
Making People Feel Good About Themselves:
British Social Policy And The Construction Of The Problem Of Self-Esteem
by Frank Furedi, Inaugural lecture, 24 January 2003
Making Sense of Parental Paranoia
Excerpt from Paranoid Parenting by Frank Furedi, The Guardian Unlimited
Asymmetrical Actors and Intentional Risk,
Abstract
Consuming Democracy: activism, elitism and political apathy
by Dr Frank Furedi
Please recognise my identity - accounting for the contemporary concern with
recognition, transcript from
Institute of Ideas and Institut français
"Attention Seeking: multiculturalism and the politics of recognition"
Diagnosing the problem: a commentary on preimplantation genetic diagnosis
by Ann Furedi and Frank Furedi
Six Billion Reasons to
Celebrate by Frank Furedi, September 1999
Who Voted For Consumer Activists?
by Frank Furedi, August, 1999
Watch out, adults about by Frank Furedi, August 1999
Succumbing to Green Scare Tactics
by Frank Furedi, The Wall Street Journal Europe, November 1998
New Britain: A Regulator's Paradise
by Frank Furedi, The Wall Street Journal Europe, March 1998
Macro
to micro: Frank Furedi on the left-liberal surrender to "PC"
Mumsnet live event.
Edited transcript of live online chat with sociologist Frank Furedi
Defining the moment,
BBC News, July 2003
Therapy Culture
exposes the often-bizarre thinking behind the growing practice of counselling.
James Heartfield
You're so vain, you probably think this book is about you
Therapy Culture and the Therapistas, by Dolan Cummings
Furious Furedi?
Please don't feel our pain review of Therapy Culture by Melissa Benn,
The Independent, 10 October 2003
Theodore Dalrymple reviews Therapy Culture by Frank Furedi
Pull yourself together!
Blake Morrison is not impressed by Frank Furedi's Therapy Culture
December 20, 2003, The Guardian Unlimited
Review of Therapy Culture by Raj Persaud,
bmj
Who really needs therapy?
Frizzy Logic, October 2003
How we let our emotions take over from our brains
by Damian Thompson
Teen mums 'are targets of eugenics'
Government pregnancy-reduction plan is about stopping lower classes breeding, claims expert
by Sarah-Kate Templeton, Sunday Herald Online, April 2003
Sociologist tears apart self-esteem of the State
By Alexandra Frean, Times Online
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Matt
Ridley
Matt Ridley
was on the panel at
Determined to Survive?
The Great Debate - Freedom, Determinism and the Gene in June 2000.
Amazon.co.uk: books by Matt Ridley
We've never had it so good - and it's all thanks to science by Matt Ridley,
Education Guardian, Thursday April 3, 2003
Review of
Nature Via Nurture, The Observer, Sunday 30 March 30 2003
Review of
Nature Via Nurture by Colin Tudge, The Independent, 29 March 2003
Natural gold dust Review of
Nature Via Nurture by Dylan Evans
The Storefront Genome Matt Ridley
lecture at UCLA Center for Society, the Individual and Genetics
James West Alumni Center - UCLA Campus
Nature
Via Nurture, Fourth Estate
Biography of Matt Ridley
Fourth Estate website
The Nature
vs. Nurture Debate
Matt White Ridley
Written
in the genes by Johnjoe McFadden, The Guardian Monday March 31, 2003
Can Selfishness
Save the Environment? by Matt Ridley and Bobbi S. Low
Concentration is key: by Matt Ridley,
Spiked-online science debates
Online NewsHour Ray Suarez talks with author
Matt Ridley about his book Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23
Chapters.
Unraveling the genome March, 2000
Barnes and Noble: review of Genome
Not an Inkling review of
Genome by Jerry Coyne
Ape and Essence review of Genome by
Daniel J. Kevles
National Genetics Society review of Genome
A Three-Billion-Year Memoir Human Genetics, William Sheridan
The Independent Review: review of The
Origins of Virtue
Science News Books: The Origins of
Virtue
Review of The Red Queen
The Motley Fool's Jester Award March 2000
Review of The Red Queen by Helga
Sex is for combating parasites
BBC News 'Back to the Future': Interview with
Matt Ridley
The virtue of human universals and
cooperation : A review essay of Matt Ridley's The Origins of
Virtue
Our relentless
drive to cooperate by Elizabeth Brubaker: review of The Origins of Virtue
What's Next in Biotech
An interview with Matt Ridley, by Tom Gardner February 27, 2001
In genes might we trust?
Jay Tolson reviews Matt Ridley
Alibris.com:
books by Matt Ridley
'The Meanings of Darwinism:
Then and Now?'
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Steven Rose
The Third Culture: Steven Rose
Biography of Steven Rose
Playing God by Hilary and Steven Rose, The Guardian,
Thursday July 3, 2003
The political scientist
: The Guardian profile of Steven Rose, Dec 2001
Profile of Steven Rose, the Moral Maze, BBC radio 4
God’s Organism? The chick as a model system for memory studies
by Steven P R Rose
The measure of a man (June 2002), Steven Rose pays tribute to the life and work of
Stephen Jay Gould
Lifelines, Biology, Freedom, Determinism, 1997
A Conversation with Steven Rose (pdf file), EMBL Annual Report 2001/2002
Biology, Freedom, Determinism
from Lifelines : Biology Beyond Determinism,
human-nature.com
Darwin, Genes and Determinism
Steven Rose on BBC
Evolution Website
Steven Rose puts the organism back into biology (1998)
Don't mess
with human nature... Francis Fukuyama fears that biotechnology will make
monsters of us. Steven Rose weighs the evidence, June 1, 2002,
The Guardian
Terms
of endowment Steven Rose finds out a thousand more things about men
than he ever imagined asking in Steve Jones's Y: The Descent of Man
Saturday September 14, 2002,
The Guardian
No Way To Treat The Mind by
Steven Rose
The Descent of Man - The Voices
Palestine: Information with Provenance
Wars of the Roses by Helen Jacobus, The Jewish Chronicle (UK), January 31, 2003
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer's Princeton Home Page.
A resource on Peter Singer
Should We Breach the Species Barrier and Grant Rights to Apes? Peter Singer vs. Kenan Malik debate
Views for the Left
by Marek Kohn
Claiming Darwin for the
Left: An Interview with Peter Singer Interview by Julian Baggini
Ethics in the
Age of Evolutionary Psychology by Francis Steen, 7 March 2000
Can Darwin Replace Marx?
Review of A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation by Joshua Foer
Sparrow Talks with Peter Singer. Interview with Sparrow. Green World Center, ca. 1999.
Living
and Dying. Interview with Jill Neimark. Psychology Today, January 1999.
Peter Singer: 20
Questions. Interview with Vance Lehmkuhl. Philadelphia City Paper, October 7-14, 1999.
Dangerous
Words. Interview with Kathryn Federici Greenwood. Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 26,
2000.
Ethics into Action.
Interview with John Cleary [transcript]. ABC, January 26, 2000.
Of
Animals and Ethics. Interview with Richard Atcheson. Princeton Alumni Weekly, November 22,
2000.
The Pursuit of Happiness. Interview with
Ronald Bailey. Reason, December 2000.
Professor Death
Interview with Viktor Frolke. Salon, June 25, 2001.
On Pushing
Time Away Interview with Robert Birnbaum. Identity Theory, April 11, 2003.
The President of Good and Evil. Interview with Michael O'Connor. Three Monkeys Online, 2004.
Ethicist Peter Singer on
Morality and the News. Interview with Bill Moyers [transcript]. PBS, May 14, 2004.
The Sanctity
of Life. Debate with Harry Gensler. John Carroll University, ca. 2000.
Ethicist Peter Singer Interview with Christopher Lyndon. The Connection, March 10, 2000.
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Raymond Tallis
Truth, the Self and the Human Agent after Postmodernism
Review of Man, Beast and Zombie
Raymond Tallis in prospect
A new classification of higher level gait disorders in patients with cerebral multi-infarct states
by Richard Liston, Jane Mickelborough, Jacqueline Bene and Raymond Tallis
Neither Nature Nor Nurture
by Raymond Tallis
Biology vs. the Blank Slate
Steven Pinker deconstructs the great myths about how the mind works.
Study: People living longer, healthier
Longevity 'is not a threat to NHS'
By Roger Highfield and David Derbyshire
Britons growing older gracefully
by Tim Radford,
Sat September 13, 2003
The Guardian
Sokal and Bricmont: Is this the beginning of the end of the dark ages in the humanities?
by Raymond Tallis
action, reaction
by Sohko Fujimoto
Leave well alone commentary by Raymond Tallis
Revisiting old debates
Enlightened paralysis, or hyper-Enlightenment?: the end of the p-age
by Peter Gray, University of Stirling
Review of
Enemies of Hope: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism
In Defence of Realism
The Two Cultures Revisited by Richard Webster
Letter to The Times Literary Supplement (unpublished) by Clare O'Farrell
The Explicit Animal: A Defence of Human Consciousness review by Dan Simon
Edmond Wright: an introduction
In sickness and in health: 'ascent of man' down to digits
by Dr James Le Fanu
Tallis tackles Brocklehurst’s Textbook
How to achieve concordance through ethnic sensitivity and lateral thinking: a case study
by Anna Murphy and Raymond Tallis
Hilarious spoof on post-structuralism
by M. L. Raina. Review of Postmodern Pooh
by Frederick Crews
The Naming of the Disease :
How Jakobson's essay on aphasia initiated postmodernist deceits
by James Drake The Times Literary Supplement, September 4 1998
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