false_vacuum comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: false_vacuum 03 February 2011 11:57:06PM 0 points [-]

It's Georges Rey. I know because I sat through an entire class that he taught once. I think I also read his book, Contemporary philosophy of mind: a contentiously classical approach, during that time, but I don't recall learning anything from it.

Can someone who has actually read the paper (I don't feel like it) tell me whether it has the same upshot as the earlier version I seem to remember, viz. that people only pretend to believe in God? (It's possible I've got this mixed up with something else.)

Comment author: gwern 04 February 2011 12:31:31AM 2 points [-]

It's Georges Rey.

Thanks.

whether it has the same upshot

It does; as I said, it's an expanded paper.