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		<title>You know you&#8217;re right</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/12/you-know-youre-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facts and opinion in a liberal democracy A recent video produced for the “10:10” campaign, which seeks to cut carbon emissions by ten percent a year for the next ten years, has come under intense criticism.  The video begins with an elementary school teacher explaining the 10:10 project to her class, and asking for her [...]


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		<title>Worlds apart –why an open society may be better after all</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Han wrote about Thomas Friedman’s Op-Ed in the New York Times on the “green economy,” contrasting the technocratic approach of China’s authoritarian rulers with the haphazard and undirected approach of the American political system. Han suggested that technocratic and authoritarian governments may have an advantage for costly but necessary endeavors. There is certainly [...]


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		<title>Primitivism is insane</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/02/primitivism-is-insane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And maybe wrong The hostage taker at the Discovery Channel headquarters posted a diatribe condemning modern civilization. The hostage taker saw humans as “filthy” and “parasitic” and considered the environment the only important value. In a warped re-reading of Daniel Quinn’s My Ishmael, his manifesto urges human civilization to dismantle itself before it takes the [...]


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		<title>Natural science?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/01/natural-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stem cell research and moral culpability. A piece in The National Review commends a US district judge for halting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.  Before this ruling the Obama administration drew a distinction between the destruction of human embryos to create stem cell lines and the subsequent use of these stem cells in [...]


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		<title>A mind with a heart of its own</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/30/a-mind-with-a-heart-of-its-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News from the psychology front: apparently, in laboratory tests people associate positive ideas (honesty, integrity, etc.) with their dominate hand and negative ideas with their non-dominant hand.  A study of recent debates by presidential candidates has shown that these results hold in the real world as well.  The piece itself is optimistic, promising that &#8220;watching [...]


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		<title>Reason to believe?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/27/reason-to-believe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting piece on peer reviewed journals and science reporting.  Apparently, science journalists are starting to look toward non-peer reviewed pre-print repositories like the arXiv to find papers to report on. And there&#8217;s some pretty mind-blowing stuff lurking in the arXiv. Ars recently received a tip to check out a paper that suggests [...]


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		<title>The taxes I pay keeps the doctor away</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/18/the-taxes-i-pay-keeps-the-doctor-away/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/18/the-taxes-i-pay-keeps-the-doctor-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ethics of &#8220;sin taxes&#8221; The other day Marc linked to a New York Times Room for Debate discussion on whether people should be paid to stay healthy. While that post focused on rewarding healthy behavior, much of the current debate and policy centers on restricting and discouraging unhealthy behavior. A common method for doing [...]


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		<title>Share your toys&#8230;and your astronomy data?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/17/share-your-toysand-your-astronomy-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT discusses the debate over NASA scientists keeping their data to themselves. -Jake Related posts:Survey data permanently settles philosophical question Facts, values, and stem cells Space, the expensive frontier


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		<title>A natural problem</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/04/12/a-natural-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baseball and steroids George Will is a conservative, political philosopher (by training), and noted baseball fan.  How these three worlds come together &#8211; if at all &#8211; arose in a recent interview in the Wall Street Journal.  Among several choice comments, this one in particular was interesting: Since coming to grips with steroids, the sport [...]


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		<title>Sam Harris &#8211; Can science address morality?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/03/22/sam-harris-can-science-address-morality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well-known &#8220;new atheist&#8221; and neuroscientist Sam Harris took on this controversial question at this year&#8217;s TED conference. Harris suggests that conventional wisdom tells us that science has nothing to say about questions of right and wrong.  It cannot give us a foundation for values &#8211; it cannot give us goals, it can only help us [...]


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