from day 02/09/2009

3 Quarks Daily’s Prize in Philosophy

The great 3 Quarks Daily blog is holding a competition for the best philosophy blog post and one of Olivier Morin's posts on our blog, "Descartes Skull," has been nominated. You have only until September 7 to look at the various nominees (several of which are quite interesting) and to vote for the ...

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Formidability and the logic of human anger

Just out in PNAS (2009, 106:15073-15078), "Formidability and the logic of human anger" by Aaron Sell, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides supporting an evolutionary analysis of anger based conflict resolution. The article is available here. (See also Jerome Barkow's comments in his own piece in the same ...

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