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How should we make choices when we know so little about our futures? L. A. Paul argues that we must view life decisions as choices to make discoveries about the nature of experience.
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L. A. Paul received her PhD from Princeton in 1999, and taught at Yale and the University of Arizona before coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Professorial Fellow at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
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