Comments on: Metaphysical Graffiti http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2005/10/metaphysical-graffiti/ Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ralph Luker http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2005/10/metaphysical-graffiti/#comment-288 Ralph Luker Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:18:40 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/new/?p=44#comment-288 Thanks for the review, Rob. No doubt about it: Menand's <i>The Metaphysical Club</i> is a terrific book -- one of those rare ones that makes me say "I wish I'd written that." Thanks for the review, Rob. No doubt about it: Menand’s The Metaphysical Club is a terrific book — one of those rare ones that makes me say “I wish I’d written that.”

]]> By: Tom http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2005/10/metaphysical-graffiti/#comment-287 Tom Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:23:29 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/new/?p=44#comment-287 <i>"Check this out: James says the reason human beings possess the idea of causation, say, is not because causation exists. Which is not to say that it doesn’t exist. We don’t know if it does, and James for one doesn’t care. But the reason we believe in causation is that experience shows it pays to believe in causation. So our intellectual evolution effectively selects for that belief."</i> Oh look! I just now bought that book. Neat Tom “Check this out: James says the reason human beings possess the idea of causation, say, is not because causation exists. Which is not to say that it doesn’t exist. We don’t know if it does, and James for one doesn’t care. But the reason we believe in causation is that experience shows it pays to believe in causation. So our intellectual evolution effectively selects for that belief.”

Oh look! I just now bought that book.

Neat
Tom

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