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Letters


Letters


New Irish Thinking • Problems With Hume’s Problem • To Err is Transhuman • Feel Free to Critique Me • Thoughts in Time • Descartes Doing The Dishes


New Irish Thinking


Dear Editor: I enjoyed Cathy Barry’s article charting historical Irish thought (Philosophy Now 160) so I briefly dropped into the Wiki page on Modern Irish Philosophers. Two especially caught my attention. Kieran Egan was a very innovative thinker associated with the development of imagination in young people. In terms of beliefs, Egan was an atheist. Interestingly there does appear to be a growing caucus of atheists in Ireland.


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