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Descartes, in the Meditations (1641), notes that "there are only two ways of proving the existence of God, one by means of his effects, and the other by means of his nature or essence.” (AT VII, 120). The latter, a priori path, represented paradigmatically by the Ontological Argument of Saint Anselm (and its offspring, including Descartes’s own version), has perennial appeal to a certain sort o...

Review of: Ted Briscoe (ed.), Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002

In 1990, when Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom proposed that ‘there is every reason to believe that a specialization for grammar evolved by a conventional neo-Darwinian process’ (Pinker and Bloom, 1990), the consensus in linguistics had been, for a long time, quite the opposite: ‘It is perfectly safe to attribute this development to “natural selection”, so long as we realize that there is no substa...

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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, US, xvii + 550 pp.— therein: Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Mathematics in and behind Russell’s logicism, and its reception. Pp. 51–83. Richard Cartwright. Russell and Moore: 1895–1905. Pp. 108–127. Peter Hylton. The theory of descriptions. Pp. 202–240. Martin Godwyn and Andrew D. Irvine. Bertrand Russell’s logicism. Pp. 171–201. Michael Beaney. R...

The Cambridge companion to Freud

found out that, as a Jew, his aims were thwarted. Thus, he started working as a practical neurologist in Frankfurt and built up a private anatomical laboratory in order to continue his systematic and comparative studies of the brain. Only in 1914-four years before his death-was his Neurological Institute incorporated into the new University and Edinger made a professor. Dr. Emisch's book is div...

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