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...roots of the debate between Chalmers and Dennett--the debate over how mysterious mind is or isn't--lie in the work of Dennett's mentor at Oxford University, Gilbert Ryle. In 1949 Ryle published a landmark book called The Concept of Mind. It resoundingly dismissed the idea of a human soul--a "ghost in the machine," as Ryle derisively put it--as a hangover from prescientific thought. Ryle's juiciest target was the sort of soul imagined back in the 17th century by Rene Descartes: an immaterial, somewhat autonomous soul that steers the body through life. But the book...
...landmark bill permitting and regulating physician-assisted suicide and authored by a group that includes two members of the Harvard community will be introduced into the Massachusetts legislature this year...
Worse, the implications of the Hatch-Hansen bill extend beyond the irreversible harm to the redrock wilderness. First, the bill would cripple the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964, the law which is the foundation of all of our nation's protected wilderness areas. So-called "hard release" language specifies that this land can never receive wilderness designation, even if future generations wish to preserve it. Second, the passage of the Hatch-Hansen bill would establish a precedent for similar legislation which would open public lands across the nation. This is not just a regional issue...
...approach dates to a landmark 1987 Supreme Court ruling. In Edwards v. Aguillard, the court overturned a Louisiana law that required creationism to be taught alongside evolution. At the same time, it opened a creationist loophole by stipulating that schools could teach "a variety of scientific theories about the origins of humankind." That sounds reasonable. If scientists argue about the merits of one theory as opposed to another, why shouldn't anti-evolutionists be able to present their side of the controversy in the classroom...
...conference comes six months after the landmark United Nations conference on women's rights held in Beijing last September...