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<title>Wendy Grossman on Karen Armstrong</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/16/charter-compassion-armstrong</link>
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The truth is not always polite and compassionate.
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<title>Steven Poole on Sen's 'The Idea of Justice'</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/07/amartya-sen-justice-book-review</link>
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'Sen is exquisitely civilised in his disagreements with other thinkers, even while he is elegantly trashing whole schools of economic and social thought.'
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<title>Wendy Grossman on Climate Change as 'Belief'</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/05/nicholson-climate-change-belief</link>
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Making issues that should be settled on the scientific evidence into philosophical discussions is nothing new.
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<title>Andrew Copson: Happy 150th to 'On Liberty'</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/30/john-stuart-mill-on-liberty</link>
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The communalist approach to diversity places 'groups' at the centre of policy rather than free individuals.
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<title>Philosophy Bites Podcast Hits 5 Million Mark</title>
<link>http://virtualphilosopher.com/2009/10/philosophy-bites-podcast-more-than-5-million-downloads-so-far.html</link>
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That's a lot of interest in philosophy.
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<title>Michael Ruse on The Greatest Show on Earth</title>
<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/endless-forms-most-beautiful-indeed/article1309860/</link>
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The eye is magnificent - we can read this wonderful book.
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<title>Martha Nussbaum on Same-sex Marriage</title>
<link>http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1935</link>
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There is something odd about the mixture of casualness and solemnity with which the state behaves as a marrying agent.
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<title>Nina Power on the Inspiration of Postmodernism</title>
<link>http://newhumanist.org.uk/2150/think-again</link>
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So what can be salvaged from this weather-beaten set of ideas? As it turns out, quite a lot.
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<title>How to Be Existentialist Socrates at the Airport</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/24/alain-de-botton-book-review/print</link>
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As with the airport and the dentist's waiting room, so with the gym, Steven Poole notes sagely.
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<title>Roger Scruton on TV and Children's Minds</title>
<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6871795.ece</link>
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'Television induces mental disorders, such as enhanced aggression, shortened attention span and reduced ability to communicate.'
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<title>Mark Vernon on Philosophy and Real Life</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/02/philosophy-public-understanding-hobbs</link>
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There's a deep satisfaction to be gained from unpeeling the apparently obvious – though that also carries the risk of profound disappointment.
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<title>Michael Sandel's 'Justice' Course to be on PBS</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/television/26sandel.html</link>
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Public tv stations across the US will show the class over 12 weeks, 2 edited classes per show.
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<title>Why So Few Women in Academic Philosophy?</title>
<link>http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/why-arent-there-more-women-in-academic-philosophy.html</link>
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Are they put off by a male canon with a male view of women?
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<title>New York Times on Dearth of Women Philosophers</title>
<link>http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/a-dearth-of-women-philosophers/</link>
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Jeffrey Sachs offers some alternative explanations [see comment 6].
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<title>Oliver Kamm on Voltaire's Children</title>
<link>http://timesonline.typepad.com/oliver_kamm/2009/09/voltaires-children.html</link>
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'For cultures born of the Enlightenment, private religious belief is not so much an enemy as an irrelevance.'
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<title>Martha Nussbaum on University Education</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/opinion/06nussbaum.html?_r=1</link>
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You need resources to prevent your mind from becoming narrower and more routinized in later life. This is your chance to get them. 
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<title>Judge for Yourself</title>
<link>http://www.microphilosophy.net/?p=87</link>
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TPM editor Julian Baggini has made a none too serious 2-minute film about his latest book.
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<title>The Science of Origins</title>
<link>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=origins-science-krauss</link>
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How did the universe begin? Is our universe unique? How did life arise? How does consciousness arise? 

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<title>Susan Neiman on Moral Clarity</title>
<link>http://newhumanist.org.uk/2092</link>
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Rejections of the Enlightenment result in premodern nostalgia or postmodern suspicion.
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<title>Colin Farrelly on Gerald Cohen</title>
<link>http://colinfarrelly.blogspot.com/2009/08/ga-cohen-1941-2009.html</link>
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A caring, generous, humorous man who possessed a razor sharp analytic mind.
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<title>BHL Declares French Socialist Party Dead</title>
<link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5870513/Bernard-Henri-Lvy-French-Socialists-dead.html</link>
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'No-one, or nearly no-one, dares to say it. But everyone, or nearly everyone, knows it.'
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<title>John Gray Reviews Timothy Garton Ash</title>
<link>http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/07/garton-ash-world-facts</link>
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Notes that facts are stubborn.
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<title>Slavoj Žižek on Iran</title>
<link>http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/20090722063455493</link>
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‘Free elections’ involve a minimal show of politeness when those in power pretend that they do not really hold the power.
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<title>Marcus Aurelius and Epistemology of Biography</title>
<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n14/bear01_.html</link>
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Biography is always as much about how we know as what.
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<title>Isaiah Berlin, the Dictaphone Don</title>
<link>http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6714593.ece</link>
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Writing these tedious, infelicitous, prolix letters took fourteen years of a clever man’s life. 
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