Starks Michael. Language Games of Philosophy, Psychology, Science and Religion: Articles and Reviews 2006-2016

Michael Starks, 2016. — v, 648 pp. — ISBN: 978-1-5323-2114-6.All the articles are about human behavior (as are all articles by anyone about anything), and so about the limitations of having a recent monkey ancestry (8 million years or much less depending on viewpoint) and manifest words and deeds within the framework of our innate psychology as presented in the table of intentionality. As famous evolutionist Richard Leakey says, it is critical to keep in mind not that we evolved from apes, but that in every important way, we are apes. If everyone was given a real understanding of this (i.e., human ecology and psychology) in school,
maybe civilization would have a chance.Wittgenstein, Searle and the Two Systems of Thought
The Logical Structure of Consciousness (behavior, personality, rationality, higher order thought, intentionality) (2016)
The Logical Structure of Philosophy, Psychology, Mind and Language as Revealed in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Searle (2016)
Wittgenstein
The Foundation Stone of Psychology and Philosophy—a Critical Review of On Certainty' by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969) (1951)
Review of Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy by Paul Horwich (2013)
Review of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations by David Stern (2004)
Review of Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock ed (2007)
Review of 'Meaning and the Growth of Understanding Wittgenstein's Significance for Developmental Psychology' — Chapman and Dixon Eds.(1987)
Review of Wittgenstein Rethinking the Inner by Paul Johnston (1993)
Review of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology by Malcolm Budd (1989)
Review of Wittgenstein-a critical reader — Hans-Johann Glock Ed. (2001)
Review of The Blue and Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein 2nd ed. (1960)
Review of Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy by David Pears (2006)
Review of Ludwig Wittgenstein by Edward Kanterian (2007)
Review of Wittgenstein and Psychology A Practical Guide by Harre and Tissaw (2005)
Review of Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1980)
Review of The New Wittgenstein — Crary & Read Eds 403p (2000)
Review of Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (2007)
John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality
Can there be a Chinese philosophy?—a Review of Searle's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy — Bo Mou Ed. 440p (2008)
Seeing With the Two Systems of Thought—a Review of 'Seeing Things As They Are: a Theory of Perception' by John Searle (2015)
Review of Making the Social World by John Searle (2010)
Review of 'John R Searle-Thinking About the Real World' by Franken et al eds. (2010)
Review of Philosophy in a New Century by John Searle (2008)
Philosophy and Psychology
A Master Wittgensteinian Surveys Human Nature—a Review of Peter Hacker 'Human Nature-the Categorial Framework' (2012)
Is there such a thing as pragmatics?—Review of Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics 2nd ed (2009)
Review of The Minds I by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett (1981)
Review of Radicalizing Enactivism by Hutto and Myin (2012)
Review of The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker (2008)
Review of The New Science of the Mind by Marc Rowlands (2013)
Endless Incoherence—A Review of Shoemaker's Physical Realization (2009)
Review of Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett (2003)
A Review of I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter (2007)
Another cartoon portrait of the mind from the reductionist metaphysicians—a Review of Peter Carruthers ‘The Opacity of Mind’ (2011)
Religion
Review of Religion Explained-The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer (2002)
Review of A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber (1996)
Review of Sex, Ecology, Spirituality by Ken Wilber 2nd ed. 851p (2001)
Do our automated unconscious behaviors reveal our real selves and hidden truths about the universe? — A review of David Hawkins ‘Power vs Force—the hidden determinants of human behavior –author’s official authoritative edition’ 412p (2012)(original edition 1995).
Review of Drifted in the Deeper Land by Adi Da (Franklin Jones) (2014)
The most profound spiritual autobiography of all time?—a review of The Knee of Listening by Adi Da (Franklin Jones) (1995)
Biology
Altruism, Jesus and the End of the World—How the Templeton Foundation bought a Harvard Professorship and attacked Evolution, Rationality and Civilization. A review of E.O. Wilson 'The Social Conquest of Earth' (2012) and Nowak and Highfield ‘SuperCooperators’ (2012)
Review of Human Nature Sandis and Cain eds. (2012)
The Transient Suppression of the Worst Devils of our Nature—a review of Steven Pinker’s ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined’ (2012)
Review of Are We Hardwired by Clark and Grunstein (2000)
Review of Adapting Minds -Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature by David Buller (2006)
Another attack on Evolution, Rationality and Civilization. A review of Nowak and Highfield ‘SuperCooperators’ (2012)
Review of The Science of Marijuana by Leslie Iverson (2007)
Review of Ecstasy the Complete Guide by Judith Holland Ed (2001)
Review of Listening Into the Heart of Things-on MDMA and LSD by Samuel Widmer (1989)
Is Harry Potter more evil than JK Rowling or you (2013)
A very brief review of the life and work of neuroscientist, physician, psychoanalyst, inventor, animal rights activist and pioneer in dolphins, isolation tanks and psychedelics John C Lilly 1915-2001.
A review of ‘Reproductive Medicine’—E. Coutinho & P. Spinola Eds. 366p (1999)
Physics, Mathematics and Computers
What Do Paraconsistent, Undecidable, Random, Computable and Incomplete mean? A Review of Godel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world by Chaitin, Doria and da Costa (2011)
Wolpert, Godel, Chaitin and Wittgenstein on impossibility, incompleteness, the liar paradox, theism, the limits of computation, a non-quantum mechanical uncertainty principle and the universe as computer—the ultimate theorem in Turing Machine Theory (2015)
Incompleteness, Para-consistency and the Limits to Computation-a Review of 'The Outer Limits of Reason' by Noson Yanofsky 403p (2013)
Review of The Inflationary Universe by Alan Guth (1997)
Review of The Art of the Infinite by R. Kaplan, E. Kaplan 324p(2003)
Review of Hyperspace by Michio Kaku (1994)
Review of The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky (2007)
Review of Doomsday—End of the World Scenarios by Richard Moran (2003)
Politics
Obituary for America (2016)