Thursday, July 23, 2009

Article of the Day

Paradoxes of Free Will
Author(s): Gunther S. Stent
Source: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 92(6)
2002

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

in the library today

Arthur O. Lovejoy
Essays in the History of Ideas
B945 L58 E7 (1948)[UBC]

Has an essay on "The Chinese Origin of A Romanticism"
quote on beauty by Sir Christopher Wren (p. 99)

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Max Delbruck
Mind from matter? An essay on evolutionary epistemology
B818 D36 1986 (UBC)

the introduction makes mention of Niels Bohr's lectures "Light and Life" and "Biology and Atomic Physics" - discussions on the impacts of quantum theory on biology

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James Rachels
Created from animals: The moral implications of Darwinism
B818 R323 1990

Had a quote from Charles Darwin:

"Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy
the imterposition of a deity. More humble and I think
truer to consider him created from animals."