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Notes
1
See Philip Tetlock, “Coping with Trade-offs: Psychological Constraints and
Political Implications,” in Political Reasoning and Choice, ed. Arthur Lupia, Matthew
D. McCubbins and Samuel L. Popkin (Berkeley, California: University of
California Press, 1999); “Thinking the unthinkable: sacred values and taboo cognitions,”
Trends in Cognitive Science 7 (2003): 320-324; and Philip Tetlock, A.
Peter McGraw, and Orie V. Kristel, “Proscribed Forms of Social Cognition: Taboo
Trade-Offs, Forbidden Base Rates, and Heretical Counterfactuals,” in Relational
Models Theory: A Contemporary Overview, ed. Nick Haslam (Mahway, New Jersey:
Erlbaum, 2004), pp. 247-262, the latter also available online as Philip E. Tetlock,
Orie V. Kristel, S. Beth Elson, Melanie C. Green, and Jennifer Lerner, “The Psychology
of the Unthinkable: Taboo Trade-Offs, Forbidden Base Rates, and Heretical
Counterfactuals,” at http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/tetlock/docs/thepsy~1.doc.
2
Tetlock, et al., op. cit., p. 6 of online version.
3
Material in the previous two paragraphs is drawn from my Breaking the Spell:
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York: Viking Penguin, 2006), pp. 22-23.
4
Douglas Hofstadter, “Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers, Leading up to a
Luring Lottery,” Scientific American, June, 1983, reprinted with a discussion of
reverberant doubt in Metamagical Themas (New York: Basic Books, 1985), pp.
752-755.
5
Douglas Hofstadter, “Metafont, Metamathematics and Metaphysics,” in Visible
Language, August, 1982, reprinted with comments in Hofstadter, Metamagical
Themas, pp. 290, 595.
6
What follows is drawn, with revisions, from my Breaking the Spell, chapter 8.
7
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1999); see also his
“Democracy and Its Global Roots,” New Republic, October 6, 2003, pp. 28-35.
8
For a discussion of Nietzsche and his philosophical response to Darwin’s theory
of evolution by natural selection, see my Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and
the Meanings of Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).
9
Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves (New York: Viking Penguin, 2003).
10
Paul Davies, “Undermining Free Will,” Foreign Policy, September/October,
2004.
11
George Ainslie, Breakdown of Will (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001), p. 88.
12
Ibid., p. 150.
13
George Ainslie, précis of Breakdown of Will, in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28
(2005): 635-650, p. 649.