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		<title>What Is Philosophy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many definitions of philosophy: the love of wisdom, a system of ideas that explain the universe, thinking about thinking, etc. None of these explanations really get to the essence of what philosophy is and why people devote their &#8230; <a href="http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=161">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Symbolic Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting story from National Public Radio that argues that our ability to engage in symbolic thinking is what truly makes us human. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129082962. I agree with the basic premise that our ability to intellectually create and manipulate symbols is crucial &#8230; <a href="http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=343">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Double Positive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a lecture the Oxford linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Columbia University &#8230; <a href="http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=351">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Religion and Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blame religion? That&#8217;s too easy and too wrong. Just as people don&#8217;t need religion to be ethical, they don&#8217;t need religion to be unethical. Religion never created any saints or monsters &#8211; the saints and monsters created themselves.]]></description>
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		<title>BP and Academic Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>profgiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The editorial by Cary Nelson of AAUP in Inside Higher Ed is pretty much the same old talking points (&#8220;as we said back in 1915&#8243;) but as archaic as AAUP is, at least someone is talking about Corporate infringements on &#8230; <a href="http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=339">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Give You the Übermensch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most notoriously misunderstood concepts in the history of philosophy is Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s Übermensch. The word &#8220;Übermensch&#8221; is too often mistranslated into English as &#8220;superman&#8221; but the German &#8220;Über&#8221; means &#8220;over&#8221; not &#8220;super&#8221; and that distinction is crucial &#8230; <a href="http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=199">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Freedom Case at U. of Illinois</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>profgiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting case over academic freedom has emerged at the University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana. A veteran adjunct professor, Kenneth Howell, has been fired by the University for statements he is alleged to have made in class and in an e-mail to &#8230; <a href="http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=322">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With Higher Ed? Among Others: Colleges Spending in Recreation Outpacing Spending on Academics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>profgiles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago I wrote about my Thoughts on Improving College Education. Today the New York Times has an article entitled Share of College Spending for Recreation Is Rising that speaks to some of the same complaints I have &#8230; <a href="http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=316">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Husserl: Consciousness is Not a Thing</title>
		<link>http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=277</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>profgiles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our common sense notion of consciousness is that it is a thing—I have a mind and my mind is perceiving and thinking. Much of philosophy has been spent trying to discover what consciousness is or simply assuming that it already &#8230; <a href="http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=277">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The False Freedom of Flippancy</title>
		<link>http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=68</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>profgiles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conformity Comes in Many Costumes It is a common conception, especially in young people, that having an &#8220;attitude&#8221; brings independence and freedom. I call them the &#8220;Too Cool to Care&#8221; crowd. Whether it is being a slacker, punk, goth, counter-culture, &#8230; <a href="http://philosophyotb.com/w/?p=68">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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