Judith Stout
Univ of Iowa grad, married, seeking new thought patterns in changing world.Read Philosophy, Hist, Politics. Interested in everything
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Judith Stout
‘Free Fall,’ by William Golding by @closelyobserved
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Shell Workers Had To Attend Trump Speech To Be Paid, Were Ordered Not To Protest: Report
They were instructed: "No yelling, shouting, protesting or anything viewed as resistance," according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The two faces of oxytocin
Oxytocin is connected to such life-affirming activities as maternal behavior, lactation, selective social bonding and sexual pleasure.
Hormones affect men's sense of fair play
Men with high testosterone levels are more likely to refuse free money if they think the offer is too paltry – it could be dominance-seeking behaviour
Testosterone has a complicated relationship with moral reasoning, study finds
Although some studies have linked high levels of testosterone to immoral behavior, a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour finds testosterone supplements actually made people more sensitive to moral norms, suggesting that testosterone's...
3. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: Indeterminism as an Emergent Phenomenon
How could we have alternative possibilities if the world was physically deterministic? I argue that physical determinism does not rule out indeterminism at the level of agency. The distinction betw…
Judith Stout
3. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: Indeterminism as an Emergent Phenomenon philosophyofbrains.com/2019/08/16/3-t… via @philofbrains
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2. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: An Indispensability Argument
Realism about free will is warranted, because the picture of humans as choice-making agents is explanatorily indispensable in the human and social sciences.
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2. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: An Indispensability Argument philosophyofbrains.com/2019/08/14/2-t… via @philofbrains
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1. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: The Challenge
This series of posts discusses some key ideas from Why Free Will is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019) by Christian List.
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1. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: The Challenge philosophyofbrains.com/2019/08/12/1-t… via @philofbrains
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Cathay Pacific C.E.O.’s Resignation Shows China’s Looming Power Over Hong Kong Unrest
The departure of the executive, Rupert Hogg, illustrates Beijing’s influence over global companies whose bottom lines depend upon access to the mainland.
Trump’s obsession with crowd sizes, explained
Trump’s latest tweets about his New Hampshire rally continue his obsessions with crowd size and with bolstering his image as a popular politician.
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Trump’s obsession with crowd sizes, explained vox.com/policy-and-pol… via @voxdotcom
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'Good Guys With Guns' Can Rarely Stop Mass Shootings, and Texas and Ohio Show Why
Mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso show the NRA's push to relax gun laws hasn't stopped the death toll from gunmen.
Jonathan Allen: Trump's path to win in 2020 is becoming narrower and narrower
NBC News National Political Reporter Jonathan Allen looks at the polls, the economic data, and the electoral map and discusses what Trump's re-election changes.
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Jonathan Allen: Trump's path to win in 2020 is becoming narrower and narrower msnbc.com/11th-hour/watc… via @msnbc
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Why Some Christians ‘Love the Meanest Parts’ of Trump
The writer Ben Howe grew up in the world of conservative evangelicalism. When he looks at the religious right now, all he sees is a thirst for power and domination.
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The writer Ben Howe grew up in the world of conservative evangelicalism. But when he looks at the religious right now, he explained to @emmaogreen, all he sees is a thirst for power and domination
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‘People don’t want to be stupid twice’: Foreign diplomats brace for Trump 2020 win
The expectation that Trump will win could affect how allies and adversaries approach negotiations with the U.S.
It's time we faced up to AI's race problem
As facial recognition is rolled out across our cities, we can no longer ignore the racial bias embedded in such technology
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It's time we faced up to AI's race problem prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-te… via @prospect_uk
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How White House advisor Stephen Miller went from pestering Hispanic students to designing Trump's immigration policy
The president's young adviser was a provocateur in his California high school, where he was hostile to Latinos and other minorities. Stephen Miller wrote in his high school yearbook: "There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country."
Some Trump supporters want to take away women’s right to vote
Donald Trump supporters took to Twitter on Wednesday to demand a repeal of the 19th Amendment, which in 1920 gave women the right to vote. The effort by fans of the GOP presidential nominee caused …
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Some Trump supporters want to take away women's right to vote nypost.com/2016/10/12/som… via @nypost
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America’s Militarized Profession of Faith
W.J. Astore I grew up in the Catholic Church, where I professed my faith weekly at every mass I attended. I also grew up a fan of the U.S. military, even as I read many books critical of its perfo…