Archive - Book reviews & random thoughts

The Altruistic Brain

How we are Naturally Good

Jul 28, 2024 •

Juan Ignacio Pérez

June 2024

Do the Humanities Create Knowledge? (& III)

The problems of the humanities today

Jun 3, 2024 •

Juan Ignacio Pérez

May 2024

April 2024

Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict

How did human societies manage to provide themselves with effective punishment mechanisms before the emergence of effective modern institutions such as…

Apr 14, 2024 •

Juan Ignacio Pérez

March 2024

The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance

The progress of science, as an endless effort demolishing myths, undoing fallacies and discarding false beliefs

Mar 28, 2024 •

Juan Ignacio Pérez

Free Agents (III): Consciousness and free will

Unconvincing arguments for the existence of the self and free will.

Mar 22, 2024 •

Juan Ignacio Pérez

Free Agents (II): lower levels of organization and mental states

On the influence of lower levels of organization on the ability to decide freely and on the nature of mental states

Mar 18, 2024 •

Juan Ignacio Pérez

Free Agents (I): the evolution of agency

Tracking the evolution of agency from the origin of life, through the development of nervous systems, and the eventual emergence of free will

Mar 13, 2024 •

Juan Ignacio Pérez

January 2024

Walking towards helplessness

Schooldays over, come on then John,

Jan 15, 2024 •

Juan Ignacio Pérez

December 2023

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