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| | ==Wisdom Research== | | ==Wisdom Research== |
Dr. Alfino's main webpage
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Favorite Links
- Caparezza, "Io vengo dalla luna," [1]
- People in Order 1 to 100 [2]
- Mipham, What about Me? [3]
- Regina Spektor, On the Radio. [4]
Noteable Media from 2008
Daniel Simmons, Visual Cognition Lab, University of Illinois
Paul Bloom, "First Person Plural," Atlantic, Nov. 2008.
David Sloan Wilson, Evolution for Everyone
Miller, Peter. "Swarm Theory." The National Geographic (2007).
Siderits, Mark. Buddhism As Philosophy. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing, 2007.
Jess Walters, The Zero
Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy?
The Dodos, "God?"
Dowman, Mike Kriby Simon Griffiths Thomas L. "Innateness and Culture in the Evolution of Language." The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. editors A. Smith A. and Smith K Cangelosi. World Scientific, 2006.
Noteable Reading from 2007
The Economist, "In God's Name: A special report on religion and public life" Nov 3rd, 2007.
Lawrence Sutin, All is Change: the 2000 year journey of Buddhism to the West, 2006
Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life, Blackwell, 1995.
Bernard Lewis, The Muslim Discovery of Europe.
Jane Kramer’s, “The Pope and Islam”. The New Yorker, April 2, 2007.
Emmons & McCullough, The Psychology of Gratitude
Fred Bryant, Savoring
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