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Category Archives: Philosophy
Conceptual consequences
Nature or nurture? – The Boston Globe Well, it turns out that the more you believe homosexuality is innate, the more accepting you are of gay rights. A full 79 percent of people who think human beings are born with … Continue reading
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A Man’s Right to Choose – A Feminist Issue?
A Man’s Right to Choose – New York Times NOBODY is arguing that we should let my friend who impregnated his girlfriend off the hook. If you play, you must pay. But if you pay, you should get some say. … Continue reading
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Some remarks on individualism and collectivism
BBC – Thought for the Day, 29 November 2005 Should the aid workers [recently kidnapped] still have been in Iraq? I was struck yesterday by the different perspective of those commenting on the kidnapping. The spokesman for Care International, another … Continue reading
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There’s no ‘good’ divorce – The Boston Globe
There’s no ‘good’ divorce – The Boston Globe Many experts and parents embrace the idea, confident that it’s not divorce itself that harms children but simply the way that parents divorce. If divorced parents stay involved with their child and … Continue reading
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Speed of technological progress and social effects
iDNES.cz – Å est Å¡kůdců, kteÅà zaruÄ?enÄ zniÄ?à váš poÄ?ÃtaÄ? Pokud nenastane zvrat v použitých technologiÃch, za 15 let budou procesory a grafické Ä?ipy vyzaÅovat na centimetr Ä?vereÄ?ný stejné teplo jako sluneÄ?nà povrch. Now here’s an interesting throwaway line in an … Continue reading
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Models in professional knowledge
Unexpected countenance of change – The Boston Globe SOMEONE, a psychiatrist, discouragingly once said that people don’t change very much, but the little ways they change, when they do change, are enormous. It seemed a dour but accurate assessment. It … Continue reading
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On some mental representations of personal identity
Who would have thought that a simple misspelling of a person’s name would cost me so much time. But it did happen and it was an entirely my fault. A friend whose name is pronounced by all and sundry Maia … Continue reading
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Marx’s and Darwin’s accomplishments: Finding the mechanism of evolution and social change?
Here’s definitely a podcast worth listening to! Niles Eldredge and Edward J. Larson discuss the upcoming Darwin exhibit and Darwin’s legacy. Particularly their discussion of Darwin’s contribution of the mechanism of ‘natural selection’ to an existing idea of ‘evolution’ is … Continue reading
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Laws of social and natural sciences
Senators are blowing smoke on gas – Los Angeles Times Unless they can repeal the law of supply and demand, they can’t do a thing about prices. … Gas, like everything else, has its price set by supply and demand. … Continue reading
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Oral vs. written tradition and new technologies
Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference Saturday SessionsAudible’s CEO Don Katz’s keynote address at the Podcast Expo brought together very many interesting points regarding the relationship of the oral and written tradition and the role of new technologies in giving … Continue reading
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