Ned Block is Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neural Science at New York University. His latest book is The Border Between Seeing and Thinking.
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Ned Block is Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neural Science at New York University. His latest book is The Border Between Seeing and Thinking.
Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.
Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.
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