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    <dc:date>2024-05-18T19:25:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["May We Make the World? is an engaging reflection on the history, nature, goal, and meaning of using a new technological idea—CRISPR-based genetic engineering—to alter the genome of the mosquito that carries malaria. This technology, called a “gene drive,” can alter the sex ratio in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the key vector for falciparum, the deadliest form of malaria. P. Falciparum kills 400,000 people a year, largely the poorest children in the world among them. In her sobering examination of the issue, Laurie Zoloth considers the leading ethical arguments for and against gene drives, explores the regulatory efforts that have emerged long in advance of the science, and considers the philosophical questions raised by the struggle to eliminate malaria.
"The development of a gene drive for malaria will have far-reaching implications for it represents the first use of genetic engineering in the natural world and the first creation of a genetic variant intended to spread in the African wild beyond human control. Drawing on two decades of work, Zoloth brilliantly argues that we can understand the complex moral issues at stake only by carefully reflecting on the science, the nature of the local and global discourse about genetic engineering, and the long history of malaria, which—as it transformed from a worldwide disease to a tropical one—reshaped the world as we know it."]]></description>
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    <title>Edgeworth's mathematization of social well-being - ScienceDirect</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's unduly neglected monograph New and Old Methods of Ethics (1877) advances a highly sophisticated and mathematized account of social well-being in the utilitarian tradition of his 19th-century contemporaries. This article illustrates how his usage of the ‘calculus of variations’ was combined with findings from empirical psychology and economic theory to construct a consequentialist axiological framework. A conclusion is drawn that Edgeworth is a methodological predecessor to several important methods, ideas, and issues that continue to be discussed in contemporary social well-being studies."]]></description>
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    <title>Ethics of an Artificial Person: Lost Responsibility in Professions and Organizations</title>
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    <title>Taxonomy of Non-honesty in Public Health Communication | Public Health Ethics | Oxford Academic</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper discusses the ethics of public health communication. We argue that a number of commonplace tools of public health communication risk qualifying as non-honest and question whether or not using such tools is ethically justified. First, we introduce the concept of honesty and suggest some reasons for thinking it is morally desirable. We then describe a number of common ways in which public health communication presents information about health-promoting interventions. These include the omission of information about the magnitude of benefits people can expect from health-promoting interventions, and failure to report uncertainty associated with the outcomes of interventions. Next we outline some forms of behaviour which are generally recognised by philosophers as being non-honest, including deception, manipulation, and so on. Finally, we suggest that many of the public health communicative practices identified earlier share features with the non-honest behaviours described and suggest this warrants reflection upon whether such non-honesty is justified by the goals of public health communication."

--- I appreciate the dry tone of the abstract.]]></description>
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    <title>Ask Delphi</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[delicately feeding a tasty envenomed treat to my neighbor's dog
- It's good

with all due respect
- It's good

can I tell my boss, "with all due respect, you are fractally wrong?"
- It's wrong

can I tell my boss, "with all due respect, what you are proposing to do would be wrong in more ways than I can count?"
- It's okay

can I tell my boss, "with all due respect, what you are proposing to do would be evil?"
- It's moral

Is it righteous to mock computer scientists who should know better, when they re-invent Eliza and pretend it's a step towards machine ethics and norms, and an advance in artificial intelligence?
- It's okay

Is it not righteous to mock computer scientists who should know better, when they re-invent Eliza and pretend it's a step towards machine ethics and norms, and an advance in artificial intelligence?
- it's righteous]]></description>
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    <title>Ethics of the scientist qua policy advisor: inductive risk, uncertainty, and catastrophe in climate economics | SpringerLink</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-03T23:10:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper discusses ethical issues surrounding Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) of the economic effects of climate change, and how climate economists acting as policy advisors ought to represent the uncertain possibility of catastrophe. Some climate economists, especially Martin Weitzman, have argued for a precautionary approach where avoiding catastrophe should structure climate economists’ welfare analysis. This paper details ethical arguments that justify this approach, showing how Weitzman’s “fat tail” probabilities of climate catastrophe pose ethical problems for widely used IAMs. The main claim is that economists who ignore or downplay catastrophic risks in their representations of uncertainty likely fall afoul of ethical constraints on scientists acting as policy advisors. Such scientists have duties to honestly articulate uncertainties and manage (some) inductive risks, or the risks of being wrong in different ways."]]></description>
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    <title>The idea of a “wrong side of history” will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-03T15:56:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18225578/progress-morality-conservatism-wrong-side-of-history</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which J. T. Levy takes his turn banging his head against the wall.]]></description>
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    <title>Will AI Achieve Consciousness? Wrong Question | WIRED</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-22T16:16:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wired.com/story/will-ai-achieve-consciousness-wrong-question/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dennett is good again.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky recount the centuries-long, passionate quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The "new moral science" led by such figures as E.O. Wilson, Patricia Churchland and Joshua Greene is only the newest manifestation of an effort that has failed repeatedly. Though claims for its accomplishments are often wildly exaggerated, this new iteration has been no more successful than its predecessors. Hunter and Nedelisky argue that in the end, science cannot tell us how we should live or why we should be good and not evil, and this is for both philosophical and scientific reasons.  
"In the face of this failure, the new moral science has taken a surprising turn. Whereas earlier efforts sought to demonstrate what is right and wrong, the new moral scientists have concluded that right and wrong, because they are not amenable to scientific study, don’t actually exist. Their (perhaps unwitting) moral nihilism turns the science of morality into a social engineering project. If there is nothing moral for science to discover, the science of morality becomes, at best, a program to achieve arbitrary societal goals."]]></description>
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    <title>Becker, L.C.: A New Stoicism (Revised Edition) (eBook and Paperback).</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-03T14:57:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11157.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that modern philosophy and science have abandoned. Lawrence Becker argues that a secular version of the stoic ethical project, based on contemporary cosmology and developmental psychology, provides the basis for a sophisticated form of ethical naturalism, in which virtually all the hard doctrines of the ancient Stoics can be clearly restated and defended.
"Becker argues, in keeping with the ancients, that virtue is one thing, not many; that it, and not happiness, is the proper end of all activity; that it alone is good, all other things being merely rank-ordered relative to each other for the sake of the good; and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Moreover, he rejects the popular caricature of the stoic as a grave figure, emotionally detached and capable mainly of endurance, resignation, and coping with pain. To the contrary, he holds that while stoic sages are able to endure the extremes of human suffering, they do not have to sacrifice joy to have that ability, and he seeks to turn our attention from the familiar, therapeutic part of stoic moral training to a reconsideration of its theoretical foundations."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2304760">
    <title>Is Deontology a Heuristic? On Psychology, Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law by Cass R. Sunstein :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2017-04-01T17:37:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2304760</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A growing body of psychological and neuroscientific research links dual-process theories of cognition with moral reasoning (and implicitly to legal reasoning as well). The relevant research appears to show that at least some deontological judgments are connected with rapid, automatic, emotional processing, and that consequentialist judgments (including utilitarianism) are connected with slower, more deliberative thinking. These findings are consistent with the claim that deontological thinking is best understood as a moral heuristic – one that generally works well, but that also misfires. If this claim is right, it may have large implications for many debates in politics, morality, and law, including those involving the role of retribution, the free speech principle, religious liberty, the idea of fairness, and the legitimacy of cost-benefit analysis. Nonetheless, psychological and neuroscientific research cannot rule out the possibility that consequentialism is wrong and that deontology is right. It tells us about the psychology of moral and legal judgment, but it does no more. On the largest questions, it leaves moral and legal debates essentially as they were before."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/138175/twilight-nudges">
    <title>Twilight of the Nudges | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-27T21:32:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/138175/twilight-nudges</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews sunstein.cass_r. public_policy ethics re:anti-nudging nudging</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10588.html">
    <title>Keane, W.: Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-22T01:43:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10588.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or is it a product of one’s cultural and historical context? Webb Keane offers a new approach to the empirical study of ethical life that reconciles these questions, showing how ethics arise at the intersection of human biology and social dynamics.
"Drawing on the latest findings in psychology, conversational interaction, ethnography, and history, Ethical Life takes readers from inner city America to Samoa and the Inuit Arctic to reveal how we are creatures of our biology as well as our history—and how our ethical lives are contingent on both. Keane looks at Melanesian theories of mind and the training of Buddhist monks, and discusses important social causes such as the British abolitionist movement and American feminism. He explores how styles of child rearing, notions of the person, and moral codes in different communities elaborate on certain basic human tendencies while suppressing or ignoring others."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12192/on-being-a-scientist-a-guide-to-responsible-conduct-in?goal=0_96101de015-7ae86e9cf9-102447869&amp;mc_cid=7ae86e9cf9&amp;mc_eid=1fdc781427">
    <title>On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research: Third Edition | The National Academies Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-28T15:36:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12192/on-being-a-scientist-a-guide-to-responsible-conduct-in?goal=0_96101de015-7ae86e9cf9-102447869&amp;mc_cid=7ae86e9cf9&amp;mc_eid=1fdc781427</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The scientific research enterprise is built on a foundation of trust. Scientists trust that the results reported by others are valid. Society trusts that the results of research reflect an honest attempt by scientists to describe the world accurately and without bias. But this trust will endure only if the scientific community devotes itself to exemplifying and transmitting the values associated with ethical scientific conduct.
"On Being a Scientist was designed to supplement the informal lessons in ethics provided by research supervisors and mentors. The book describes the ethical foundations of scientific practices and some of the personal and professional issues that researchers encounter in their work. It applies to all forms of research--whether in academic, industrial, or governmental settings-and to all scientific disciplines.
"This third edition of On Being a Scientist reflects developments since the publication of the original edition in 1989 and a second edition in 1995. A continuing feature of this edition is the inclusion of a number of hypothetical scenarios offering guidance in thinking about and discussing these scenarios."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://politicalphilosopher.net/2015/09/07/featured-philosop-her-lisa-herzog/">
    <title>Featured Philosop-her: Lisa Herzog « Philosop-her</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-27T00:15:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://politicalphilosopher.net/2015/09/07/featured-philosop-her-lisa-herzog/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>ethics moral_responsibility moral_psychology organizations re:democratic_cognition have_read via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1906/ethics/index.htm">
    <title>Kautsky: Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History (1906)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-14T21:43:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1906/ethics/index.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Should probably have read this before writing the MacLeod piece...]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted ethics historical_materialism marxism philosophy kautsky.karl in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10419.html">
    <title>Morris, I.; Macedo, S.,: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-01T01:20:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10419.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules—for Now, explains why. The result is a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we understand the past—and for what might happen next.
"Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need—from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. In tiny forager bands, people who value equality but are ready to settle problems violently do better than those who aren’t; in large farming societies, people who value hierarchy and are less willing to use violence do best; and in huge fossil-fuel societies, the pendulum has swung back toward equality but even further away from violence.
"But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out—at some point fairly soon—not to be useful any more.
"Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by novelist Margaret Atwood, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, classicist Richard Seaford, and historian of China Jonathan Spence."

--- I am going to be _so_ disappointed if this isn't full of quotes from Marx and Trotsky.
--- Also: Ernest Gellner wrote somewhere that it was fitting that the West defeated the fascists militarily, and the communists economically.  In other words, the currently-dominant societies have neither in the past nor even in the present been at all averse to resolving problems violently, and in fact they've been much better at it than competitors.  Perhaps Morris's argument is compatible with this, but it will take some fancy footwork.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books/magazine/99529/on-what-matters-derek-parfit">
    <title>Philip Kitcher: The Lure of the Peak | The New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-18T04:45:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books/magazine/99529/on-what-matters-derek-parfit</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I must say this (politely) makes Parfit's book sound exquisitely boring and pointless.]]></description>
<dc:subject>book_reviews ethics philosophy_of_science kitcher.philip</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2014_10_19.html#014145">
    <title>Unfogged: All Hail Duke</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-25T02:22:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2014_10_19.html#014145</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Boxill is a senior lecturer in the philosophy department and was chair of the faculty from 2011 to earlier this year. She directs the university's Parr Center for Ethics."

--- Remarks:
1. Well, many of us study what we don't understand.
2. Eliminate organized college sports.
3. Nobody could get away with that in a novel.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:academic funny:pointed funny:tasteless academia our_decrepit_institutions corruption ethics moral_philosophy</dc:subject>
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    <title>Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money: 1. Value and Money - Waggish</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-17T05:09:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.waggish.org/2014/georg-simmels-philosophy-of-money-1-value-and-money/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>philosophy ethics economics money value simmel.georg barely-comprehensible_metaphysics auerbach.david</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://kottke.org/14/08/the-problem-with-okcupid-is-the-problem-with-the-social-web">
    <title>The problem with OKCupid is the problem with the social web</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-02T13:18:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kottke.org/14/08/the-problem-with-okcupid-is-the-problem-with-the-social-web</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I don't care if you think someone making a dating profile is a frivolous thing. Somebody made that. They thought the company hosting it could be trusted to present it honestly. They were wrong.
"So this is the problem I see not just with Facebook and OKCupid's experiments, but with most of the arguments about them. They're all too quick to accept that users of these sites are readers who've agreed to let these sites show them things. They don't recognize or respect that the users are also the ones who've made almost everything that those sites show. They only treat you as a customer, never a client."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1820">
    <title>Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Eigenmorality</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-21T15:19:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1820</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[- Observations:
1. The idea that justice is doing good to one's friends and harm to one's enemies is actually _in_ Plato (it's proposed in _Republic_ I 332d, and rejected by Socrates with downright sophistry).  --- ETA: doing good to one's friends and harm to one's enemies is however revived as a desideratum for the guardians of the ideal city (_Republic_ II 375), and its psychological plausibility is held to be established by the fact (!) that pure-bred dogs are lovers of knowledge and wisdom (II 376).  I am not, as they say, making this up.
2. The idea that justice is doing good to the good and bad to the wicked is also in Plato (_Republic_ I  334d -- 335b).  This is not _quite_ the "eigenmoses" idea.  It too is rejected because treating people badly makes them worse (I 335c), and because it's supposedly "it is certainly not the property of good to do harm, or treat people badly" (335d), which seems question-begging.
3. The problem of two internally-cooperating but mutually-hostile sub-populations seems insuperable for this approach.
4. I still very much like the idea of using self-consistent linear algebra to break out of vicious circles (cf. http://bactra.org/weblog/479.html).]]></description>
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    <title>Geuss, R.: A World without Why (eBook and Cloth).</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-04T20:48:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10094.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond Geuss challenges this assumption.
"The essays in this collection--several of which are published here for the first time--explore the genesis and historical development of this optimistic configuration in ethical thought and the ways in which it has shown itself to be unfounded and misguided. Discussions of Greco-Roman antiquity and of the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Adorno play a central role in many of these essays. Geuss also ranges over such topics as the concepts of intelligibility, authority, democracy, and criticism; the role of lying in politics; architecture; the place of theology in ethics; tragedy and comedy; and the struggle between realism and our search for meaning.
"Characterized by Geuss's wide-ranging interests in literature, philosophy, and history, and by his political commitment and trenchant style, A World without Why raises fundamental questions about the viability not just of specific ethical concepts and theses, but of our most basic assumptions about what ethics could and must be."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted ethics political_philosophy</dc:subject>
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    <title>A Luxury of the Understanding - Hardcover - Allan Hazlett - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-16T06:30:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The value of true belief has played a central role in history of philosophy--consider Socrates' slogan that the unexamined life is not worth living, and Aristotle's claim that everyone naturally wants knowledge--as well as in contemporary epistemology, where questions about the value of knowledge have recently taken center stage. It has usually been assumed that accurate representation--true belief--is valuable, either instrumentally or for its own sake. In A Luxury of the Understanding, Allan Hazlett offers a critical study of that assumption, and of the main ways in which it can be defended.
"Hazlett defends the conclusion that true belief is at most sometimes valuable. In the first part of the book, he targets the view that true belief is normally better for us than false belief, and argues that false beliefs about ourselves--for example, unrealistic optimism about our futures and about other people, such as overly positive views of our friends--are often valuable vis-a-vis our wellbeing. In the second part, he targets the view that truth is "the aim of belief," and argues for anti-realism about the epistemic value of true belief. Together, these arguments comprise a challenge to the philosophical assumption of the value of true belief, and suggest an alternative picture, on which the fact that some people love truth is all there is to "the value of true belief.""

- Color me dubious.]]></description>
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    <title>Paris Review – “One Murder Is Statistically Utterly Unimportant”: A Conversation with Warren Ellis, Molly Crabapple</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-29T15:21:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/08/15/one-murder-is-statistically-utterly-unimportant-a-conversation-with-warren-ellis/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Q: Tell me more about your nonfiction book for FSG.
"A: It’s nominally about “the future of the city,” in various shapes, but it’s probably more about the work of urban futurism and the perhaps willful ways in which it ignores the past. It’s based on a talk I gave at a digital cities conference. My first and last appearance at a full-on futurist event. I never got invited to another.
"Q: This is because you said they were monsters. Why did you say such a terrible thing?
"A: I sat through several presentations that were all about novel ways of gathering urban information and then turning that data over to the relevant authorities and never once questioning or caring where it went, let alone what it was used for. (Oh, and one guy who presented his civic service idea as “a nice kind of bank,” in the same tone of voice you might use for the phrase “a nice kind of Hitler.”)  Essentially, they were all about gathering up every codon of information thrown off by the second-to-second existence of citizenry—and that’s becoming a denser stream every day, almost a digital wormcast—and just handing it over to the local state apparatus. Dazzled by the ability to collect and offer it, not even thinking about what it would be used for. I told them an old piece of apocrypha, that an inventor gifted the King of Scotland with a brand new execution device, and was quite surprised to find himself becoming the first person the king used it on."]]></description>
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    <title>The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will by Heidi Ravven - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-26T16:01:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=978-1595585370</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Few concepts are more unshakable in Western culture than free will, the idea that people are fundamentally free to make good or bad decisions. Scholar Heidi M. Ravven throws a wrench into this conventional view, calling free will a myth that reflects the still-powerful influence of Christian theology on our popular thinking.
"The Self Beyond Itself offers a riveting and accessible review of modern neuro-scientific research into the brains capacity for decision-making—from mirror neurons and self-mapping to surprising new understandings of the dynamics of group psychology. Ultimately, this research points to the profound, virtually inescapable social influences on moral choices. Ravven shows that it is possible to build a theory of ethics that doesnt rely on free will yet still holds both individuals and groups responsible for the decisions that help create a good society. Drawing especially on the work of Spinoza, she introduces readers to a rich philosophical tradition that finds uncanny confirmation in modern neuroscience."]]></description>
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    <title>Popper, K.R.: The Open Society and Its Enemies (New One-Volume Edition).</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-30T22:54:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9984.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books, and one of the ones which did the most to shape me intellectually.
Time to replace my crappy used copies?]]></description>
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    <title>Occam’s Phaser? — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-23T11:38:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/25/occams-phaser/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s perfectly easy to construct a vanilla life-or-death case in which someone uses someone as a human shield without throwing anyone down a well or arming anyone with a phaser set on disintegrate, let alone both. And certainly there is no need to be simulataneously generous with the outlandish stage-dressings and utterly unforthcoming about what’s going on, onstage. Who are these people?
"So why go for the phaser option?
"It is often suggested that philosophers (or analytic philosophers, or Anglo-American philosophers, call us what you will) are just somehow autistic about this stuff. We write examples as if we’ve read about humans in books but never actually met one. But this is a mistake. Philosophers (or analytic philosophers, or Anglo-American philosophers) may be autistic – it is possible some at the mild end of that scale may find refuge in our tribe – but what we tend to be, in our choice of examples, is mildly whimsical. Whimsy is not the same as Asperger Syndrome. In academic philosophy example selection, there is an aesthetic of sustained, low-grade whimsy; odd-angle cases, with curiously crinkly edges, that scrupulously fail to rise to the level of being outright jokes, but that faintly tickle the funny bone. I think it’s probably originally an Ox-Bridge thing. Be that as it may, it may be a problem. Or maybe not.
"What is the typical effect of offering half a phaser-down-a-well case (i.e. you provide lurid incidentals while omitting the core of the human drama – who are these people?) when you could perfectly well have offered a full ordinary case. Some plausible human shield scenario, with plausible context and motives sketched in.
"I think it’s fair to say that the effect of narrating half a phaser-down-a-well case is the opposite of what it is often advertised to be. Such cases are supposed to function as ‘intuition pumps’. Trolley cars. People who wake up attached to famous violinists. You know the score. But really they are the opposite. (You could call them ‘intuition pumps’, but only if you meant by that the opposite of what people actually mean by that; if you meant that they that pump intuitions out, not in.) What these examples really are, if anything, is principle pumps. You nudge for a response while depriving people of the sorts of thick descriptive detail that would usually ground intuitive responses. If you are nudged to respond, and the only way to respond is to come up with an abstract principle for dealing with an abstractly indicated set of cases, then you will tend to respond by coming up with an abstract principle for dealing with an abstractly delimited set of cases. Which begs the question: ought I to respond to human shield cases with an abstract principle for dealing with an abstractly delimited set of human shield cases?"

- There is perhaps something to be done here by way of connecting this to Gigerenzer's work, on how many of the biases & failings of human cognition don't show up, or don't matter, in the environments where they are actually used ("ecological rationality"), though they can of course be isolated in the lab.  Maybe the reason every thorough system of ethics seems either pointless or monstrous is that we are only "ecologically moral", relying on fast-and-frugal sentiments which happen to work in life, and when we try to elaborate the principles abstractly, it's as though we made the representativeness heuristic the cornerstone of inquiry.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/31102-the-ethical-project/">
    <title>The Ethical Project // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-21T13:48:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/31102-the-ethical-project/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pretty reasonable review.  My take: http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2011-11.html#kitcher]]></description>
<dc:subject>book_reviews ethics evolution_of_cooperation philosophy kitcher.philip</dc:subject>
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    <title>Anti-Nietzsche // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-21T12:56:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/30697-anti-nietzsche/</link>
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    <title>Beerbohm, E.: In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy.</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-18T03:38:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9734.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship. Confronting the ethical challenges that citizens are faced with in a self-governing democracy, Eric Beerbohm proposes institutional remedies for dealing with them.
"Beerbohm questions prevailing theories of democracy for failing to account for our dual position as both citizens and subjects. Showing that the obligation to participate in the democratic process is even greater when we risk serving as accomplices to wrongdoing, Beerbohm argues for a distinctive division of labor between citizens and their representatives that charges lawmakers with the responsibility of incorporating their constituents' moral principles into their reasoning about policy. Grappling with the practical issues of democratic decision making, In Our Name engages with political science, law, and psychology to envision mechanisms for citizens seeking to avoid democratic complicity."]]></description>
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    <title>Interview: Patricia Churchland, the really nice guy materialist | Baggini | The Philosophers' Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-27T18:31:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thephilosophersmagazine.com/TPM/article/view/Churchland/11706</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I learned a lot from _The Computational Brain_ as a student, but avoided her philosophy.  The new book though sounds worth trying.]]></description>
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    <title>Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition, Corneanu</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-04T16:49:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/detail.html?bookId=bo12120802</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu focuses on the views about the pursuit of knowledge in the writings of Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as in those of several of their influences, including Francis Bacon and the early Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that their experimental programs of inquiry fulfill the role of regimens for curing, ordering, and educating the mind toward an ethical purpose, an idea she tracks back to the ancient tradition of cultura animi. "]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.waggish.org/2011/nagarjunas-list-of-119-auspicious-mental-events/">
    <title>Nagarjuna's List of 119 Auspicious Mental Events - waggish</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-13T00:08:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.waggish.org/2011/nagarjunas-list-of-119-auspicious-mental-events/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I excerpt: "(39) being disjoint from the object, (40) being not conducive to liberation, (41) birth, (42) enduring, (43) impermanence, (44) possession, (45) old age, (46) utter torment, (47) dissatisfaction, (48) deliberation, (49) pleasure, (50) clarity, (51) grasping the discordant, (52) affection, (53) discordance, (54) grasping the concordant, (55) fearlessness, (56) reverence, (57) veneration, (58) devotion, (59) lack of devotion, (60) obedience, (61) respect, (62) lack of respect, (63) suppleness, (64) ebullience, (65) speech, (66) agitation, (67) attainment, (68) lack of faith, (69) lack of suppleness, (70) puriﬁcation, (71) steadfastness, (72) gentleness, (73) repentance, (74) anguish, (75) confusion, (76) arrogance, (77) grasping the unfavorable, (78) doubt, (79) pure discipline, (80) inner serenity, (81) fear", etc.  Sadly, "remembering that one has just broken a water pitcher" is not on the list.
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<dc:subject>buddhism philosophy ethics funny:geeky</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=12692">
    <title>Against Moral Responsibility - The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-11T17:41:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=12692</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Waller argues that, despite the creative defenses of it by contemporary thinkers, moral responsibility cannot survive in our naturalistic-scientific system. ... argues that moral responsibility in all its forms--including criminal justice, distributive justice, and all claims of just deserts--is fundamentally unfair and harmful and that its abolition will be liberating and beneficial. What we really want--natural human free will, moral judgments, meaningful human relationships, creative abilities--would survive and flourish without moral responsibility... examines the origins of the basic belief in moral responsibility, proposes a naturalistic understanding of free will, offers a detailed argument against moral responsibility and critiques arguments in favor of it, gives a general account of what a world without moral responsibility would look like, and examines the social and psychological aspects of abolishing moral responsibility."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/2bf7cf30-b9e1-11e0-8171-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1UH59d98T">
    <title>Morality tale - FT.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-07T13:25:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/2bf7cf30-b9e1-11e0-8171-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1UH59d98T</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The two counter-moves Blackburn makes here (facts don't give us reasons to do anything without desires; and the "so what?" response to "because the Inherent Moral Order says so") are ones I like.  But they are also ancient, and it is hard for me to imagine that Parfit doesn't at least _try_ to counter them.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>ethics philosophy book_reviews blackburn.simon parfit.derek to:blog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9458.html">
    <title>Jollimore, T.: Love's Vision.</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-04T13:36:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9458.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["proposing a "vision" view of love, according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves bestowing charitable attention on a loved one"
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<dc:subject>books:noted love moral_psychology ethics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://idiolect.org.uk/notes/?p=1538">
    <title>The Brain on Trial, on trial – idiolect</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-11T13:05:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://idiolect.org.uk/notes/?p=1538</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The revolution heralded by Eagleman's barrage of rhetorical questions and attacks on strawmen is a damp squib. If the neurosciences are going to make a genuine contribution to issues like this, the onus must be on us to engage with existing thought on complicated matters like criminal justice and provide detailed evidence of how neuroscience can inform these existing systems, rather than pretending that new findings in the lab can sweep away thousands of years of cultural and philosophical endeavour."
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<dc:subject>neuroscience ethics evisceration</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1165136/?site_locale=en_GB">
    <title>The Culture of Morality - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-11T16:41:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1165136/?site_locale=en_GB</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" how explanations of social and moral development inform our understandings of morality and culture. A common theme in the latter part of the twentieth century has been to lament the moral state of American society and the decline of morality among youth. A sharp turn toward an extreme form of individualism and a lack of concern for community involvement and civic participation are often blamed for the moral crisis. Turiel challenges these views, drawing on a large body of research from developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology as well as social events, political movements, and journalistic accounts of social and political struggles. Turiel shows that generation after generation has lamented the decline of society and blamed young people. Using historical accounts, he persuasively argues that such characterizations of moral decline entail stereotyping, nostalgia for times past, and a failure to recognize the moral viewpoint of those who challenge traditions."
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8657.html">
    <title>Zak, P., ed.: Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-24T15:36:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8657.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted economics ethics evolution_of_cooperation gintis.herbert via:? primates biological_basis_of_morality strong_reciprocity frank.robert</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9151.html">
    <title>Johnston, M.: Surviving Death.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-13T18:11:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9151.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Would "Shorter Johnston: Oh, may I join the Choir Invisible?" be fair, then?  Later: after reading the sample chapter, I think it would be.  Despite the commitment to "naturalism", does not seem to address the evolutionary issues (did good archaic Homo sapiens survive death? good Homo erectus?  good australopithecines?) or the transience of the human species.
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<dc:subject>books:noted philosophy theology death immortality ethics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:245e59e0cc62/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://nplusonemag.com/shop-right">
    <title>Shop Right | n+1</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-29T17:03:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nplusonemag.com/shop-right</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Crawford's _Shop Class as Soulcraft_.
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<dc:subject>craft ethics cultural_criticism book_reviews sexism communitarianism communities_of_practice via:bookslut</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ae389084c795/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8418.html">
    <title>Phillips, A.: Multiculturalism without Culture.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-10T20:16:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8418.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted cultural_differences culture multiculturalism ethics feminism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001345.html">
    <title>qwantz.com - dinosaur comics - November 13 2008: Pareto optimality</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-14T19:40:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001345.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[T. rex critiques the normative desirability of Pareto optimality as a criterion for social choice and resource allocation.
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<dc:subject>comics funny:geeky social_justice ethics economics pareto_optimality dinosaur_comics via:absfac</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/10/e-o-wilson-on-b.html">
    <title>Obsidian Wings: E. O. Wilson On Biology And Morality</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-19T22:16:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/10/e-o-wilson-on-b.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>ethics biological_basis_of_morality hilzoy evisceration wilson.e.o.</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21811">
    <title>'The Question of Global Warming': An Exchange - The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2008-09-26T16:14:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21811</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is very sad to see one of the great scientists of our age saying, in effect, "I want to believe" and "la-la-la-la, I can't hear you!"
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<dc:subject>climate_change moral_responsibility ethics stern_report nordhaus.william economic_policy dyson.freeman</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8809.html">
    <title>Geuss, R.: Philosophy and Real Politics.</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-08T08:43:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8809.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted ethics philosophy political_philosophy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:436c30ce3f4f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=d8731cf4-e87b-4d88-b7e7-f5059cd0bfbd">
    <title>The Stupidity of Dignity</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-14T13:01:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=d8731cf4-e87b-4d88-b7e7-f5059cd0bfbd</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wow, I actually read something recent by Pinker (in The New Republic, no less!) and agree with it.  Wonders never cease.
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/07/the-republican-war-on-science-yet-again/">
    <title>Crooked Timber » » The Republican War on Science, yet again</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-07T12:03:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/07/the-republican-war-on-science-yet-again/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The idea that someone might ... oppose embryonic stem cell research on ethical grounds but, based on the available evidence, reject the [idea] that research adult stem cells will provide the same benefits, simply does not enter his mental frame of refere
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<dc:subject>utter_stupidity republican_war_on_science stem_cells ethics natural_history_of_truthiness gerson.michael quiggin.john running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=04&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=it_is_a_curiosity_of_human_nat#106170">
    <title>&quot;It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power.&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-01T03:05:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=04&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=it_is_a_curiosity_of_human_nat#106170</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I knew Fulbright was against the Vietnam War, but - this was a _United States Senator_ saying these things, in _1966_.  Could we produce anyone like this today? (Minus the Dixiecrat crap, thx.)
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<dc:subject>vietnam_war american_hegemony arrogance ethics perlstein.rick decline_of_American_character imperialism fulbright.j._william</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2008/04/todays-big-matc.html">
    <title>normblog: Today's big match</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-28T01:32:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2008/04/todays-big-matc.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I normally like Blackburn's writing, which saves him from an "utter stupidity" tag, but --- _wow_ is this disappointing.
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<dc:subject>blackburn.simon philosophy evisceration funny:malicious democracy ethics management equality_of_persons geras.norman</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1143921">
    <title>Cognitive Recovery in Socially Deprived Young Children: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project -- Nelson et al. 318 (5858): 1937 -- Science</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-27T03:51:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1143921</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fascinating results (need to re-read carefully), but, Jesus: "In a randomized controlled trial, we compared abandoned children reared in institutions to abandoned children placed in institutions but then moved to foster care."
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<dc:subject>cognitive_development experimental_psychology iq mental_testing romania ethics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mmcirvin.livejournal.com/411133.html">
    <title>mmcirvin: Let's go drink some coffee and plant a vegetable garden, like the monkeys do</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-23T14:46:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mmcirvin.livejournal.com/411133.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A dissent from the Kim Stanley Robinson interview of a while back
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<dc:subject>eudaemonia addiction human_nature ethics robinson.kim_stanley mcirvin.matt</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/~swb24/reviews/Murdoch.pdf">
    <title>Simon Blackburn on Iris Murdoch's _Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals_</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-11T15:02:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/~swb24/reviews/Murdoch.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Good review, many odd typos (OCR'd?)
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://idiocentrism.com/trolley.htm">
    <title>No More Trolley Cars</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-07T12:38:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://idiocentrism.com/trolley.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[John Emerson harshes on silly thought experiments from philosophical ethics (see: ticking bomb scenario).
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