Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Modern Psychologist Philosophy and Science of Psychology ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://modernpsychologist.ca/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Personality Lectures on YouTube](https://modernpsychologist.ca/personality-lectures-on-youtube/) - [Final Post: Who is the Modern Psychologist?](https://modernpsychologist.ca/final-post-who-is-the-modern-psychologist/) - Final essay by Halifax psychologist Brad Peters. Revisits key arguments against cognitive psychology, universal darwinism, and the medical model of mental illness. - [Altruism: The Last Bastion of Humanity?](https://modernpsychologist.ca/altruism-the-last-bastion-of-humanity/) - Altruism is a problem for the eliminative materialist; recent 'scientific' arguments claim that altruism serves inclusive fitness. I challenge that view here. - [Absurdity (Part 4 of 4): Living with the Absurd](https://modernpsychologist.ca/absurdity-part-4-of-4-living-with-the-absurd/) - This article finishes the discussion on Albert Camus, absurdity, and systems of meaning. - [Farewell Mrs. Neutron](https://modernpsychologist.ca/farewell-mrs-neutron/) - [Death, Meaninglessness, and Darwinian Heroism ](https://modernpsychologist.ca/death-meaninglessness-and-darwinian-heroism/) - Universal Darwinism and evolutionary psychology are argued to be secular religions with a nihilistic flavour. Read on. - [Defining the Human Animal (2 of 2)](https://modernpsychologist.ca/defining-the-human-animal-2-of-2/) - Explores the evolution of human consciousness, the symbolic self, and the dilemma of being a symbolic animal that craves meaning. - [Defining the Human Animal (1 of 2)](https://modernpsychologist.ca/defining-the-human-animal-1-of-2/) - Part 1 of 2 exploring human evolution, consciousness, and the emergence of the symbolic animal that is man. - [Do Animals and Computers have Minds? Probably Not](https://modernpsychologist.ca/do-animals-and-computers-have-minds-probably-not/) - Compares human minds with animal and computer minds. Explores self-consciousness and humans versus chimpanzees. - [In Remembrance: Ignorance and Dogma](https://modernpsychologist.ca/in-remembrance-ignorance-and-dogma/) - We must remember, that the Holocaust was made possible by scientific unreason and ignorance. Let's ensure we don't ever go down that road again. - [Modern Psychology: Illusions and Dogma](https://modernpsychologist.ca/modern-psychology-illusions-and-dogma/) - A clinical psychologists critiques his field. I argue that mainstream psychology is not based on science, but illusion and dogma. - [Tallis' Aping Mankind Book Review](https://modernpsychologist.ca/tallis-aping-mankind-book-review/) - Book review of Raymond Tallis' Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity. - [Dostoevsky & the Burden of Freedom](https://modernpsychologist.ca/dostoevsky-the-burden-of-freedom/) - Discusses Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor & notions of free will, responsibility, and meaning. - [Free Will as Illusion: It's your choice](https://modernpsychologist.ca/free-will-as-illusion-its-your-choice/) - Essay critiquing those who claim free will is an illusion. - [Aspiring to be 'well read' and to have 'read widely'](https://modernpsychologist.ca/apiring-to-be-well-read-and-to-have-read-widely/) - It is one thing to be considered well read; another to have read widely. The former is easy. The latter involves flexibility. How do you measure up? - [Knowledge and the Intelligent Fool](https://modernpsychologist.ca/knowledge-and-the-intelligent-fool/) - What is knowledge and what are its limits? - [Remembrance Day: A Duty to Remember](https://modernpsychologist.ca/remembrance-day-a-duty-to-remember/) - The cost of war and a duty to remember the price that was paid for freedom. - [Absurdity (Part 3 of 4): The Positive Leap](https://modernpsychologist.ca/absurdity-part-3-of-4-the-positive-leap/) - Here I describe what Camus views as philosophical suicide in response to the absurd human condition. - [New Atheists, Universal Darwinists, and Scientism](https://modernpsychologist.ca/new-atheists-universal-darwinists-and-scientism/) - Critique of New Atheists' reliance on a mechanistic science of human nature. This criticism also applies to Universal Darwinism or evolutionary psychology. - [Psychology's Neglect of Philosophy](https://modernpsychologist.ca/psychologys-neglect-of-philosophy/) - Critique of how modern psychology has ignored its historical philosophical roots in an attempt to define itself as an empirical science. - [Critique of Evolutionary Psychology](https://modernpsychologist.ca/critique-of-evolutionary-psychology/) - Critique of evolutionary psychology in how they define the human mind in contradiction to neurobiology and neuroscientific evidence. - [Nagel and Camus on the Absurd](https://modernpsychologist.ca/nagel-and-camus-on-the-absurd/) - Explores Nagel's 1971 essay criticizing Albert Camus' formulation of the absurd. I find that Nagel misunderstands Camus, and that his conclusion entails a kind of philosophical suicide. - [Untangling the Mind Brain Relationship](https://modernpsychologist.ca/untangling-the-mind-brain-relationship/) - This article overviews and critiques several approaches to understanding the mind-brain relationship, including substance dualism, dual-aspect theories, and identity theories. - [The Interplay of Race, Culture, and Reason](https://modernpsychologist.ca/the-interplay-of-race-culture-and-reason/) - Reviews Malik's book Strange Fruit: Why both sides are wrong in the race debate. My own critical comments to follow. - [Pinker's Take on Scientism](https://modernpsychologist.ca/pinkers-take-on-scientism/) - Pinker ironically defends scientism using examples that justify the charges. His recent essay is nothing more than a polemic for reductionist thinking and misapplication of science. - [My Thoughts on New and Militant Atheism](https://modernpsychologist.ca/my-thoughts-on-new-and-militant-atheism/) - I critique New Atheism or the militant atheist based on a differentiation between truth and humanistic value. I argue that only the latter is defensible. - [The Holy Temple of the Human Body](https://modernpsychologist.ca/the-holy-temple-of-the-human-body/) - Challenges the death-denying belief that the purpose of life is physical survival. This is ultimately nihilistic, and is a dehumanization of the person. - [Music Playlist of the Absurd](https://modernpsychologist.ca/music-playlist-of-the-absurd/) - Short playlist of songs that involve themes of absurdity, meaning, freedom, death, and existential isolation. - [Teaching in the 21st Century](https://modernpsychologist.ca/teaching-in-the-21st-century/) - Outlines some of the many ways that teaching has changed in recent decades. Who is responsible for education - the professor or the student? - [The 'Mind' Does Not Reduce to the 'Brain'](https://modernpsychologist.ca/the-mind-does-not-reduce-to-the-brain/) - Many think that the mind is what the brain does. I criticize that position here. The mind does not reduce to the working mechanisms of the brain. - [In Search of Meaning (Part 2/3): Rebellion](https://modernpsychologist.ca/in-search-of-meaning-part-23-rebellion/) - Discusses the quest for human meaning in light of our absurd human condition and the act of rebellion - our standing for values more important than our own lives. - [In Search of Meaning (Part 1/3): Absurdity & the Limits of Reason](https://modernpsychologist.ca/in-search-of-meaning-part-13-absurdity-the-limits-of-reason/) - Article discussing the human quest for meaning, the absurdity of the human condition and the limits of reason. - [Absurdity (Part 2 of 4): The Negative Leap](https://modernpsychologist.ca/absurdity-part-2-of-4-the-negative-leap/) - Continued discussion of Albert Camus' notion of the absurd and one of two ways of possible escape. Suicide is not seen as a rational solution, but an irrational denial of reality and an evasion of the problem. - [Absurdity (Part 1 of 4): A Starting Point](https://modernpsychologist.ca/absurdity-part-1-of-4-a-starting-point/) - Outlining Camus' exploration of the absurdity of our human condition and his philosophical path that must be walked if one is to remain consistent with it. - [Logical Fallacies in Psychology](https://modernpsychologist.ca/logical-fallacies-in-psychology/) - A short list of logical or philosophical fallacies frequently committed by psychologists or scientists studying human nature. - [Science, Art, and Inspiration](https://modernpsychologist.ca/science-art-and-inspiration/) - Exploring notions of beauty, inspiration, and emotion, within the mind of the artist and the scientist. - [In Search of Meaning (Part 3/3): Relative Rebellion](https://modernpsychologist.ca/in-search-of-meaning-part-23-relative-rebellion/) - Camus' exploration of absurdity and how it leads into metaphysical and historical rebellion. Read more... - [The Artist and Metaphysical Rebellion](https://modernpsychologist.ca/the-artist-and-metaphysical-rebellion/) - This essay details the subjective or phenomenological quality of language, existential isolation, and how art can be a means of transcending its limits. ## Pages - [topic index](https://modernpsychologist.ca/topic-index/) - Links to topics including: psychology, critical thinking, scientism, free will, mind vs brain, absurdity, meaning, rebellion, and more. - [About](https://modernpsychologist.ca/about/) - Part-time writing project and intellectual outlet for myself, modernpsychologist is both a critique and a challenge to the mainstream. - [Book List](https://modernpsychologist.ca/book-list/) - [Links](https://modernpsychologist.ca/resources/) ## Categories - [Uncategorized](https://modernpsychologist.ca/category/uncategorized/) - [blog](https://modernpsychologist.ca/category/blog/) ## Tags - [logical fallacies](https://modernpsychologist.ca/tag/logical-fallacies/) - 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