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  • 16 Aug 2023
    Feature image showing statue of man for James F. Brennan's blog "Men, Masculinity, & Psychology"
    James F. Brennan

    Men, Masculinity, & Psychology

    Blog #3 in the, Psychology and its Antecedents, series Earlier this summer, several articles appeared in the New York Times about masculinity and how the concept and its expectations are evolving in our social interactions. Some of this interest was prompted by a book (Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, Regnery Publishing, 2023) by a […]

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  • 31 May 2023
    James F. Brennan

    That “Olde” Story: Faith and Reason

    Blog #2 in the, Psychology and its Antecedents, series In the previous blog about the emergence of psychology at the expense of the traditional intellectual provinces of the older disciplines of religion and philosophy, one important question centers on two sources of truth. Is there an equivalence between knowledge derived from faith and knowledge derived […]

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  • 6 Mar 2023
    James F. Brennan

    Does Psychology Crowd Out Its Antecedents?

    Scholars have looked to various possible explanations of our world, from the spiritual realm to physical nature, as well as internally to ourselves. As a species, our intellectual life over time seems progressively effective. That is, our cognitive and intellectual capabilities and achievements have improved, so that we seem better able to thrive within our […]

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  • 15 Jun 2017
    Maarten Derksen

    How to be Irresistible

    Originally posted on Tact Technology In commercials for AXE deodorant, popular with adolescent boys, its qualities are always advertised in roughly the same way: by showing that a man – however unattractive – becomes irresistible to women when he smells of AXE. This modern variation on the love potion illustrates the kind of fantasy of control […]

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