William Flesch

William Flesch teaches English at Brandeis. He is the author of Comeuppance: Altruistic Punishment, Costly Signaling, and other Biological Components of Fiction.

One Feels a Malady: On Robert N. Watson’s “Cultural Evolution and its Discontents”

William Flesch reviews "Cultural Evolution and its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure."...

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PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

HISTORY

CULTURAL STUDIES

A Quotable Love Story

An Honest Ghost, a novel constructed of quotations from other novels, becomes nothing less than a powerfully moving story of love, and loss, and their precious remainders, or the story rather of how what you love is always at risk of becoming only the trace and remainder of itself....

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The Secrets of Consciousness and the Problem of God

I. LET’S SAY YOU WERE GOD. How could you know this? How could you be sure that you weren’t rather a mad person, thinking you were God? You’d be omniscient of course, so you would ...

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