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Lord Memorial Prize Essay

. Although it may well be unreliable and illogical, is a well-known habit to form firm, lasting, and definite first impressions. That they are often ^accurate and always superficial is to be admitted, but nevertheless they frequently form the basis of our later estimations and prejudice our views for good or evil, the more so when the situation is a new one to us, or one whose arrival we have b...

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

Maccabaean Prize Essay, 1968

Medical History William Bynum Essay Prize

Joint winner of the 2013 Philosophy prize essay competition

This article aimstoreviewthe standardobjectionstodualismandtoargue that either they will fail to convince someone committed to dualism or are flawed on independent grounds. I begin by presenting the taxonomyofmetaphysical positions on concrete particulars as they relate to the dispute between materialists and dualists, and in particular substance dualism is defined. In the first section, severa...