tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175499112011-07-07T20:05:37.049-05:00Philosophical musings, etc.Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01534724237470263214noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17549911.post-55293386030132663312010-07-29T09:34:00.002-05:002010-07-29T09:34:38.779-05:00

I am trying to have blog posts show up in facebook.

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Sad, but true. I started a blog and almost never used it.  I need a place to dump ideas, so I am re-launching this thing.  God help us all.

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In coversation I once posed the following case to some students of mine. I wasn't sure if it had any real philosophical significance, but I have increasingly come to think that there might be. The issues seem to be: 1) must I know that I have been harmed in order to actually be harmed? 2)Can there be moral value in my ignorance of harm?Here is the case:Mr NN is feeling sad, has aches and pains,

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I am recently back from what was probably the least pleasant APA Eastern meeting I have ever attended. Friends should note that I enjoyed catching up as usual. However, the fact that I spent most of the meeting fending off a stomach bug and conducting job interviews combined for a less than optimal couple of days. On the up side, I was able to catch up with a number of folks I knew from graduate

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How can you NOT read a restaurant review with the teaser tag:"The non-testicular offal on the plate provided context for the gentle, white rooster's doodles"And a passage like this:"I am, after all, an English graduate. But that is the tragedy of it. For by the time I got to university, in 1988, books were no longer in fashion, and no matter how many books I read, the powers that were, the tutors

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