Religious Schizophrenia (Disorder) should be in the DSM officially as a disorder.
It deserves a place more than does histrionic personality disorder.
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Dr Bruce Long
Jul 4, 20231 min read
On atheist folk epistemology and the use of the term 'belief'
See Dr Bruce Long's latest short public philosophy article, an all singing, all dancing 5-8 minute read which includes philosophy of...
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Dr Bruce Long
May 4, 20231 min read
A defense of strong illusionism about consciousness, and what to do with dodgy peer reviewers.
My new substack article is a doozy. There's spotted autobiographical adventure. There's blockbuster philosophy of information and...
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Dr Bruce Long
Apr 8, 20231 min read
Atheism as mental health: The uncomfortable but strong case for religious schizophrenia.
The diagnostic criteria for a disorder corresponding to the behavioural features of psychologising theisms already exist in the DSMV. It...
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Dr Bruce Long
Nov 20, 20220 min read
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Dr Bruce Long
Oct 23, 20220 min read
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Dr Bruce Long
Oct 17, 20221 min read
New Course Syllabus: Naturalistic Metaphysics
Rationale: This course is an intermediate to advanced undergraduate course designed to make scholars familiar with various topics in...
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Dr Bruce Long
Oct 12, 202216 min read
Unpopular Philosophy of Psychology of Religion: Megacultism as a mental disorder.
Harvard neuroscientist Professor Robert Sapolsky regards megacultism (religion) as an evolved, adaptive response to pervasive stress. I...
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Dr Bruce Long
Oct 11, 20221 min read
New Course Syllabus: Introduction to The Philosophy of Information
Rationale: This course is an introductory undergraduate course designed to make scholars familiar with the philosophy of information and...
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Dr Bruce Long
Oct 8, 20222 min read
New Course Syllabus: The Informational Turn In Philosophy (Advanced)
I have updated the course to provide an advanced version: Originally I had omitted most of the most historical philosophical texts from...
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Dr Bruce Long
Mar 29, 20227 min read
When do you have strong determinism in Quantum Mechanics? When you have many worlds?
Eddy Kemming-Chen has recently proposed strongly deterministic (SD) interpretation of a quantum mechanical model of how the universe and...
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Dr Bruce Long
Mar 14, 20222 min read
Informational immanent realism about Numbers
I have been reading’s Field’s “Mathematical Objectivity and Mathematical Objects” again as part of the process of doing a review (Bueno,...
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Dr Bruce Long
Dec 22, 20214 min read
Boltzmann swampwoman brains are metaphysically possible
Consider the very cool and very interesting idea of a Boltzmann brain. The idea is simple to grasp. Instead of a sentient brain that...
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Dr Bruce Long
Nov 25, 20218 min read
Metainformational texts and writing explained
In this post I will provide a brief explanation of the concept of metainformational writing and texts, which concept I introduced in my...
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Dr Bruce Long
Jun 6, 202111 min read
Of Ansibles and Digital Ethics
This is the first in a new series of VERY short posts (Bit sized not bi/yte sized, and mostly extracted from my Twitter feeds!) that are...
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Dr Bruce Long
Mar 1, 202116 min read
Post truth, knowledge, and the scandal of deduction
In the light of the new world wide wave of memetic-narrative disinformation (misdirecting false statements) and misinformation (partial...
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Dr Bruce Long
Jan 30, 202110 min read
A note on the metaphilosophy, and metametaphysics, of information
Metaphilosophy is the philosophy of how to approach questions in a particular domain of philosophy (very roughly and not super correctly...
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Dr Bruce Long
Jan 16, 202118 min read
Scientific Metaphysics and Informational Theory Defeasibility
Theory defeasibility, or the revision and update of theories on the basis of new information and hypotheses, is sometimes misrepresented...
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Dr Bruce Long
Jan 1, 202111 min read
Structural and functional informational complexity, or why brains have more information than stars.
The more complex an information source state is, the more (existentially) statistically unlikely it is. The same goes for sources. The...
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