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If what I want when I drink fine wine is information about its chemical properties, why don't I just read the label?

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Sydney Shoemaker

Sydney Shoemaker

Born: September 29, 1931
Died: September 6, 2022 (aged 90)
Bio: Sydney Shoemaker was an American philosopher. He was the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University and was well known for his contributions to philosophy of mind and metaphysics. In 1971, he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University.
Known for:
  1. Physical realization (2007)
  2. Identity, cause, and mind (1984)
  3. Personal identity and memory (1984)
  4. Self-knowledge and self-identity (1958)

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