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Hanna Pickard: Why Do Addicts Use? Getting Real about Drugs, Identity, and Adversity
Hanna Pickard: Why Do Addicts Use? Getting Real about Drugs, Identity, and Adversity
Read the interview with Hanna Pickard conducted during her visit to the Rotman Institute. ABSTRACT The mainstream view of addiction is that it is a neurobiological disease of compulsion. Yet the evidence is overwhelming that addicts retain choice and a degree of control over drug consumption. This talk explores the power of the neurobiological myth […]
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James G. Lennox: Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits?
James G. Lennox: Aristotle and Darwin: Antagonists or Kindred Spirits?
ABSTRACT In the decades following the forging of the so-called Neo-Darwinian Synthesis in the 1940s, a number of its philosophical defenders created a myth about what Charles Darwin was up against, a viewpoint called “typological essentialism” often attributed to Aristotle. In this paper I first sketch the history of how this myth was created. I […]