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Chomsky's arguments for the existence of pre-experiential knowledge, and for the existence of sub-personal cognition, are clearly stated and shown to be cogent.

Key terms of analytic philosophy defined.

The basic precepts of the discipline of analytic philosophy are covered both briskly and thoroughly. Special attention is paid to the philosophy of language and to relation of logical consequence.

The basic precepts of the discipline of analytic philosophy are covered both briskly and thoroughly. Special attention is paid to the philosophy of language and to relation of logical consequence.

Platonism is the doctrine which says that the spatiotemporal must be understood in terms of the non-spatiotemporal.

It is made clear what knowledge is and how we acquire it. It is also explained how we can have knowledge of the future, the past, the possible, the imperceptible, and the non-existent. The Gettier problem is solved, and it is proved that we have a prior knowledge, as well as knowledge of non-trivial but purely analytic truths.

It is generally thought that the psychopath has no superego. This is not so. The psychopath's superego functions only intermittently. By contrast, the non-psychopath's superego exerts a steady pressure on his psyche. The psychopath's superego, though existent, is, as it were, external to the ego over which it has jurisdiction, whereas the non-psychopath's superego is not so neatly separated from the corresponding ego. But the psychopath's superego is quite as existent as the non-psychopath's.

Short papers on psychology and its cultural offshoots.

The basic tenet of attachment theory is that a person's emotional attachments influence the ways in which the individual deals with problematic situations. And the way one deals with problematic situations influences the person's relations with others. This book explains what attachment theory is and how mental illness in adults, including relationship problems, can be explained in terms of it.

It is proved that time travel is impossible.

The widespread belief that the mind is a computer embodies a failure to distinguish between computers and information-processing systems. Minds are information-processing systems, but they are not computers.

Ninety paradoxes of philosophy and psychology. With solutions. 

A case is made that so-called international law is law in name only and, moreover, that although bona fide international law is theoretically possible, it would not be desirable.

  It is clearly explained: what it is for a statement to be necessarily true, why necessity, possibility, existence, and non-existence are properties of propositions (truths and falsehoods), not of objects or states of affairs, and more.

In this briskly written volume, a case is made that a value is a belief as to how one live one's life if one's psychological architecture is to retain its integrity, and a case is thereby made that intention is an operationalized value. This analysis makes it possible to distinguish between minds that do and minds that do not host selves. (Selves are minds that have values; minds that are not selves do not.) The relationship between weakness of the will and self-deception is made clear, and it is explained how it is that one can knowingly act in self-destructive ways.

Is the Turing Test a good test of intelligence? This question is answered, and the answer is shown to be "no". John Searle's argument to this same effect is shown to be a model of philosophical impotence.

Big Tech shadow governments are explained. 

I conjecture that audiobooks can be enormously helpful to people with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia and other such conditions. I believe that. "Audio Book therapy" - in other words, education that is based on audiobooks, as opposed to printed books - can boost the test scores of people with the aforementioned conditions. Further, I believe that such therapy can normalize the brain-activity of such people, this being provable, so I also conjecture, with the help of brain scans.

Thoughts are stated concerning the human and subhuman conditions.

The nature and future of gene-editing is discussed. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Genome Editing in Human Embryos and learn about genetics.