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• ObamaCare, Tyranny, and Social Contracts

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto.     Many Americans are dubious about big government, but the GOP, The Tea Party, and Libertarians have been the most... Read more

  The 14 July 2012 by   Realizingresonance
  History,  Society

• The Evolution of Terror in Peru

  

      The Peruvian people have suffered through decades of terrorism. The initial bombing campaigns carried out by the Shining Path in 1980, in which... Read more

  The 22 July 2012 by   Realizingresonance
  Culture,  History,  Society

• A Conversation in Kathmandu

  

  Dominik von Bohlen experiences a dialogue with a farmer's wife in Kathmandu. Read more

  The 11 July 2012 by   Periscope
  Spirituality

• Free Speech and the Internet

  

  One problem with internet speech is the disinhibition that people seem to feel about being extraordinarily rude about and to others if they don't actually have... Read more

  The 31 July 2012 by   Philosopher's Beard
  Debate,  Society

• Some Philosophy Links

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr (a pdf of his NY Times obit). The Niebuhr family.A series of Michael Sandel's podcasts at BBC4.At the Guardian, Benjamen Walker interviews Gile... Read more

  The 01 July 2012 by   Praymont
  Culture, 

• Comments on Anne-Marie Slaughter's Elitist Feminism

  Anne-Marie Slaughter recently published an essay in The Atlantic that has been getting a lot of attention: Why Women Still Can’t Have It All. I found it rather... Read more

  The 10 July 2012 by   Philosopher's Beard
  Debate,  Society

• Nicolai Hartmann, Hume, and Moksha

  

  Nicolai Hartmann (who now has an entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia)Russell Stannard: 'The job of science is to describe the world we find ourselves in -- what... Read more

  The 03 July 2012 by   Praymont
  Culture, 

• Evolution vs.Specification (Specification V)

  One of Gibson's key contributions was to reveal that it was possible for the optic array to specify a meaningful property of the world. Read more

  The 06 July 2012 by   Andrew D Wilson
  Psychology,  Science

• Beiser on Some neo-Kantian and Historicist Dudes

  From Brian Leiter's blog, I learned that Frederick Beiser has a new book out: The German Historicist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2011). It looks truly... Read more

  The 08 July 2012 by   Praymont
  Culture, 

• Philosophical Style

  New Apps has a thread on 'great lines in philosophy.' Here's a page of such lines compiled at Siris in 2009. The New Apps thread was occasioned by Jim Holt's... Read more

  The 03 July 2012 by   Praymont
  Culture,