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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Beyond Human Nature</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher Simon Blackburn reviews <em>Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape Our Lives</em> by Jesse Prinz.  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2012/01/prinz-learning-capacities</link>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Shift Happens</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ A discussion of philosopher Thomas Kuhn's big idea and his lifelong attempt to clarify and defend it.  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131580/</link>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>The New Religious Intolerance</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Renown philosopher Martha Nussbaum talks about overcoming the politics of fear in an anxious age in this segment of the Diane Rehm Show.  [audio]  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://thedianerehmshow.org/audio-player?nid=15946</link>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Philosopher to Sculpt Poe</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher and sculptor Stefanie Rocknak has been selected to create a commemorative statue of Edgar Allen Poe. The statue is destined for a site in the city of Boston where Poe was born. [Also see images of <a href='http://poeboston.blogspot.ca/p/test-page.html'>Rocknak's proposed statue</a>.]  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://poeboston.blogspot.ca/</link>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Against Modern Motherhood</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher Elisabeth Badinter argues that modern motherhood as fundamentally regressive.  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elisabeth-badinter/tyranny-of-modern-motherhood_b_1446962.html</link>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>The Living Word</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher Peter Ludlow argues that <a href='http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/arguing-about-language/'>Gary Gutting's "revisionist" picture</a> of language does not go far enough to get with the reality of the fluency of langauge.  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/the-living-word/</link>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Buddhism and Naturalism</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher Owen Flanagan discusses his book, <em>The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized</em>. [See also a review of the book in the <a href='http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=417718&sectioncode=26'>Times Higher Education</a>.]  [audio]  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2012/03/26/episode-53-buddhism-and-naturalism-with-guest-owen-flanagan/</link>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Put Your Ethics Where Your Mouth Is</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ The New York Times has published a selection of the essays submitted to their Explain-Why-Eating-Meat-is-Ethical Contest.  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/20/magazine/ethics-eating-meat.html#/%23ethicistpoll5</link>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Hour of the Wolf</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ An interview with philosopher Mark Rowlands. Rowlands "once lived with a wolf and . . . is always philosophising about the nature of consciousness, animal rights, applied ethics and what you can know from TV. He has written several books, including <em>The Body in Mind</em>,<em> Animals Like Us</em>, <em>The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe</em>, <em>Everything I Know I Learned From TV</em>, <em>Fame</em> and <em>The Philosopher and the Wolf</em>."  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/hour-of-the-wolf/</link>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Republicanism</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ "What is republicanism? Philip Pettit discusses this important political tradition in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, emphasizing the centrality of a principle of non-domination."  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://philosophybites.com/2012/04/philip-pettit-on-republicanism.html</link>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Returning to the Sermon on the Mount</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher Gary Gutting turns a philosophical eye to the question, "What exactly is the moral code to be found in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount?"  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/returning-to-the-sermon-on-the-mount/</link>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Metaphysics of Gender</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ A discussion with philosopher Charlotte Witt about her new book, <em>The Metaphysics of Gender</em>.  [audio]  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://newbooksinphilosophy.com/2012/04/15/charlotte-witt-the-metaphysics-of-gender-oxford-university-press-2011/</link>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Moral Status of Beings Other Than Us</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) "explores the issues surrounding the moral status of foetuses, those in persistent vegetative states, and non-human animals."  [audio]  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://philosophybites.com/2012/04/jeff-mcmahan-on-moral-status.html</link>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Arguing About Language</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher Gary Gutting talks about what is at stake in debates about linguistic norms. [UPDATE: See also philosopher <a href='http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/the-living-word/'>Peter Ludlow's response essay</a>.]  ]]> </description>
	<link>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/arguing-about-language/</link>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Causal Machines</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ An interview with philosopher Patricia Churchland ]]> </description>
	<link>http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/casual-machines/</link>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Reclaim Your Privacy</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher A.C. Grayling argues that we are at a crucial juncture and we must take steps to reclaim our privacy before it is beyond our grasp to do so. He believes that Google, Facebook and others must be required to divulge the information they keep on you. ]]> </description>
	<link>http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/time-to-reclaim-your-privacy-says-philosopher-20120406-1wgtf.html</link>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>The Case Against Kids</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ A review of philosopher, Christine Overall's book <em>Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate</em> where the central question is whether having children can be morally justified. ]]> </description>
	<link>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/04/09/120409crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all</link>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Want to Understand Free Will?</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ Philosopher Hilary Bok explains why, if one wants to really understand free will, neuroscience is not the right place to look for answers. [You will also find a discussion of Bok's essay at <a href='http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=4568'>Talking Philosophy</a>.] ]]> </description>
	<link>http://chronicle.com/article/Hilary-Bok/131168/</link>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:00:00 EST</pubDate>
	<title>Rethinking Humanity</title>
	<description> <![CDATA[ An interview with philosopher Japa Pallikkathayil. ]]> </description>
	<link>http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/rethinking-the-formula-of-humanity/</link>
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