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<title>Nussbaum on Philosophy and Shakespeare</title>
<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e1bd6ffa-c648-4d40-8efd-40dd1b31b444</link>
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Philosophers often try to write about Shakespeare. Most of the time they are ill-equipped to do so. 
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<title>Slavoj Žižek Interview</title>
<link>http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/11/everybody_in_the_world_except_us</link>
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Whenever I see myself, like there on the screen, I’m tempted to adopt the position of an observer and ask myself, if I were to have a daughter, I would never allow that guy to take me to a movie theater.
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<title>Does science make belief in God obsolete?</title>
<link>http://www.templeton.org/belief/</link>
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Templeton foundation asks; Pinker, Hoodbhoy, Midgley, Hitchens, others answer.
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<title>UCL Withdraws Fellowship from Holocaust Denier</title>
<link>http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11&amp;SecId=11&amp;AId=59657&amp;ATypeId=1</link>
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'Let us hope the schoolchildren visitors are properly taught about the elegant swimming-pool at Auschwitz...'
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<title>UCL Statement on Nicholas Kollerstrom</title>
<link>http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0804/08042202</link>
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Fellowships are awarded to researchers with whom UCL wants to associate; UCL doesn't want to associate with Kollerstrom.
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<title>Simon Blackburn on Eight Myths</title>
<link>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=401547&amp;c=1</link>
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What is usually known as culture is a set of symbols enabling people on the inside to recognise and dislike those on the outside.
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<title>A.D. Woozley 1912-2008</title>
<link>http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/in-memoriam-ad.html</link>
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The well-known legal and political philosopher Anthony D. Woozley co-taught the first law and philosophy class at Oxford in 1951.
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<title>Mary Warnock on The Politics of Religion</title>
<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/200804100031</link>
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Society is not a religious organisation like a church. Laws must as far as possible be made in the interests, far wider than matters of faith, of all members of society, whether or not they hold any religious views.
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<title>Daniel Dennett Debates Robert Winston</title>
<link>http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2275308,00.html</link>
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The more we use science to explore nature, the more we find things we do not understand and cannot explain.
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<title>Michael Walzer on Tibet</title>
<link>http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1135</link>
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While the Tibetans are pragmatists, at this moment the Chinese are rigid ideologues.

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<title>Bill Moyers Talks to Martha Nussbaum</title>
<link>http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04182008/transcript2.html</link>
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If we use the language of fair play and equality, we can understand why we don't want certain kinds of manifestations of Christianity in public life. 

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<title>Philosophy on 'Start the Week'</title>
<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek_20080421.shtml</link>
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Raymond Tallis; Daniel Dennett; Carole Seymour-Jones on Sartre and Beauvoir.
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<title>Raymond Tallis on Neuroscience and Literary Criticism</title>
<link>http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3712980.ece</link>
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In approaches that purport to be neuroscience-based, the consciousness of the writer is reduced to neurophysiology.
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<title>Habermas Backs Archbishop Over Sharia</title>
<link>http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=1862</link>
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Argues that Europe must adopt an inclusive discussion on religion in public life through a dialogue in which all parties cooperate as equals.
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<title>Avishai Margalit on Sectarianism</title>
<link>http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=986</link>
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The idea of the sacred describes what is indivisible and hence not subject to compromise. 
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<title>Grayling and Monk Debate Education</title>
<link>http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/0,,2271681,00.html</link>
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The appetite for finding out, and thinking about what is learned, grows by feeding.
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<title>Philosophy More Popular in US Universities</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/education/06philosophy.html?em&amp;ex=1207800000&amp;en=8a793b6d6a5d9410&amp;ei=5087%0A</link>
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'A lot of students are in it because they find it intellectually rewarding.'
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<title>Grayling on 'Explaining Religion'</title>
<link>http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19826502.300-commentary-what-is-this-thing-called-religion.html</link>
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The concept of religiosity is going to need all the historical and anthropological clarification it can get before a computational model of its dynamics becomes possible.

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<title>Grayling on Murphy-O'Connor</title>
<link>http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ac_grayling/2008/04/sin_of_omission.html</link>
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'Judaeo-Christian' ethics were taken over from Stoicism and Cicero.
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<title>NCSE on California Creationism Case</title>
<link>http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2008/CA/774_interim_victory_in_california__4_1_2008.asp</link>
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The University has a legitimate interest in evaluating the adequacy of high school courses to prepare students for study.
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<title>Carlin Romano Reviews Susan Jacoby</title>
<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20080316_America_anti-intellectual__Now__lets_think_this_out.html</link>
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The Age of American Unreason feeds the notion of American anti-intellectualism as a no-brainer truth.

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<title>Project to Inquire into Religion</title>
<link>http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10875666</link>
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Experiments to look at the mental mechanisms needed to represent an omniscient deity.
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<title>Martha Nussbaum on America's Puritanical Streak</title>
<link>http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/2008/03/13/spitzered_0314.html</link>
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All of us, with the exception of the independently wealthy and the unemployed, take money for the use of our body.
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<title>Michael Walzer on the Value of Voting Twice</title>
<link>http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1109</link>
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Mill proposed giving a double vote to university graduates; a very bad idea.University graduates are as likely as anyone else to be hasty, prejudiced, and self-regarding. 
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<title>What Would Mill Advise on Wilders's 'Fitna'?</title>
<link>http://www.signandsight.com/features/1668.html</link>
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The problem with the Wilders film is that we do not know whether the situation of the corn dealer applies.
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