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		<title>Mill&#8217;s Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Stuart Mill&#8217;s Ethics The ethical theory of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is most extensively articulated in his classical text Utilitarianism (1861). Its goal is to justify the utilitarian principle as the foundation of morals. This principle says actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote overall human happiness. So, Mill focuses on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Indian Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali The tradition of Patañjali in the oral and textual tradition of the Yoga Sūtras is accepted by traditional Vedic schools as the authoritative source on Yoga, and it retains this status in Hindu circles into the present day. In contrast to its modern Western transplanted forms, Yoga essentially consists of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Later Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 23:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Dowden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Mathematics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Later Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics Mathematics was a central and constant preoccupation for Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951). He started in philosophy by reflecting on the nature of mathematics and logic; and, at the end of his life, his manuscripts on these topics amounted to thousands of pages, including notebooks and correspondence. In 1944, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aesthetic Attitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 06:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Dowden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Aesthetic Attitude Aesthetics is the subject matter concerning, as a paradigm, fine art, but also the special, art-like status sometimes given to applied arts like architecture or industrial design or to objects in nature. It is hard to say precisely what is shared among this motley crew of objects (often referred to as aesthetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modal Metaphysics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 06:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Dowden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metaphysics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Modal Metaphysics Modal metaphysics concerns the metaphysical underpinning of our modal statements. These are statements about what is possible or what is necessarily so. We can construe the primary question of modal metaphysics as, “When we make a statement about what is possible or necessary, what determines the truth or falsity of the statement?” As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Problem of Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 04:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Dowden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mind & Cognitive Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Hard Problem of Consciousness The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining why any physical state is conscious rather than nonconscious.  It is the problem of explaining why there is “something it is like” for a subject in conscious experience, why conscious mental states “light up” and directly appear to the subject.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renaissance Philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Dowden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[16th Century European]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Renaissance Philosophy The Renaissance, that is, the period that extends roughly from the middle of the fourteenth century to the beginning of the seventeen century, was a time of intense, all-encompassing, and, in many ways, distinctive philosophical activity. A fundamental assumption of the Renaissance movement was that the remains of classical antiquity constituted an invaluable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pluralist Theories of Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Hoyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Language]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pluralist Theories of Truth Truth pluralism (or ‘alethic’ pluralism) is a view about the nature of truth. Broadly speaking, the thought behind the view is that truth may require different treatments for different kinds of subject matter. In particular, there is the prospect for it to be consistent to conceive of truth in a realist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen’s Capability Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Dowden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Value Theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sen’s Capability Approach The Capability Approach is defined by its choice of focus upon the moral significance of individuals’ capability of achieving the kind of lives they have reason to value. This distinguishes it from more established approaches to ethical evaluation, such as utilitarianism or resourcism, which focus exclusively on subjective well-being or the availability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Idealism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Dowden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[19th Century European]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[German Idealism German idealism is the name of a movement in German philosophy that began in the 1780s and lasted until the 1840s. The most famous representatives of this movement are Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. While there are important differences between these figures, they all share a commitment to idealism. Kant’s transcendental idealism was [...]]]></description>
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