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Death, Dying, and Heroes
Death, Dying, and Heroes Nowadays it’s not uncommon to hear people say that they’re not afraid of death, just of dying. I think this is heard more frequently than it used to be. The news that consciousness does survive the … Continue reading →
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Getting to Objectivity
Getting to Objectivity Lately I’ve been reading a book titled What is Fiction For? The British philosopher Bernard Harrison wrote it to defend novels – defend writing them and reading them – from the accusation that they don’t tell the … Continue reading →
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Tagged anomalies, “the earth moved”, Bernard Harrison's What Is Fiction For: Literary Humanism Restored, Charles Dickens, confirming hypotheses, D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover", death of shame, Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls", erotic intensity, explaining away, false consciousness, fashionable pessimism, fiction as false, Freudian theory, George Eliot, Henry James, horror novels, importance of fiction, importance of novels, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, made up stories, Marxian theory, near-death experiences, novels, novels as untrue, objective truth, out of body experiences, paranormal evidence, physicalism, pornographic novels, post modernism, reading fiction, real-life drama, refuting instances, refuting physicalism, Republican Spain, role of fiction, science fiction novels, scientific explanation, scientific fraud, scientific method, scientism, shame, skepticism, skeptics, sociopaths, surrealist novels, tests of goodness, tests of valor, tests of wisdom, the Frankfurt School, the gamekeeper, the human landscape, theory, Titus Rivas, Titus Rivas Anny Driven & Rudolf H. Smit’s The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, well-confirmed evidence, zombie novels
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