{"id":6,"date":"2008-04-24T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-04-24T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T00:19:00","slug":"two-articles-relevant-to-recent-class-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/two-articles-relevant-to-recent-class-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Articles Relevant to Recent Class Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Philosopher William Vallicella argues that the Buddhist &#8220;no-self&#8221; doctrine (the view that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">nothing <\/span>has an enduring self-nature) is self-refuting <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com\/posts\/1172199116.shtml\">here<\/a>. (Incidentally, if any of you want to write a paper on Buddhism, this would be a fine article to comment on.)<\/p>\n<p>2) Yandell remarks that contemporary dismissals of mind-body dualism (an assumption of Jainism and of most monotheists) are a reflection of academic &#8220;fashion&#8221; and not a consequence of there being decisive arguments against dualism. Philosopher William Lycan, himself <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">not<\/span> a dualist, admits as much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~ujanel\/Du.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Philosopher William Vallicella argues that the Buddhist &#8220;no-self&#8221; doctrine (the view that nothing has an enduring self-nature) is self-refuting here. (Incidentally, if any of you want to write a paper on Buddhism, this would be a fine article to comment on.) 2) Yandell remarks that contemporary dismissals of mind-body dualism (an assumption of Jainism\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/two-articles-relevant-to-recent-class-topics\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}