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		<title>Morality Inside-out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most moral enquiry – particularly metaethical enquiry – is conducted in an arse-backwards way. Most philosophers appear to look at morality from the inside-out. And I’d suggest this inside-out view of morality is hampering our ability to understand the nature of morality in all its glorious messy complexity. What we need to do is turn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=957&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics as Biology: Explaining the Razor Edge of Partisan Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following Obama&#8217;s re-election, M.S. at The Economist ponders the startlingly improbable situation in the United States where such a strongly partisan country can keep rolling out elections that are knife edge finishes: This is what strikes one most strongly looking back at America from across an ocean: the country seems repeatedly embroiled in savage 51-49 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=955&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Morality: A Thesis Primer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a short preface to my thesis on evolution and moral ecology that gives the broad brush outline of my argument and how it&#8217;ll likely flow from chapter to chapter. Much is in flux, even at this stage (when is it supposed to settle down, I wonder), but I thought this might be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=953&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity versus Homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often wondered why there&#8217;s such an obsessive focus on &#8211; and moral revulsion towards &#8211; homosexuality in Christianity. And I think I may have discovered an answer in a book by famed anthropologist Edward Westermarck. The thing is, many other cultures and religions &#8211; and many moral systems &#8211; don&#8217;t have the same negative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=948&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Voters Pass a Test Before Voting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.&#8221; So (allegedly) said Winston Churchill. And who&#8217;s to disagree? Exhibit A: the comments to my recent column on the ABC&#8217;s Drum, which bemoans that &#8220;we have stopped discriminating between argument and sophistry.&#8221; Seems few in the comments &#8211; even those who appear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=940&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raising the Bar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To argue or not to argue. That is the question that underpins my latest missive on The Drum about the state of political and public discourse in Australia (and translatable to most other modern liberal democracies), as motivated by Malcolm Turbull&#8217;s latest speech. And when it comes to those who spout sophistry or invective in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=937&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Am I Really a Moral Relativist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relativism is one of those terms more often used in the pejorative than in any serious philosophical sense. It’s like a cautionary sign at the edge of a cliff pronouncing “Caution! Precipice ahead!” Any argument in ethics that steers towards relativism – or even any argument that steers away from objectivity and absoluteness – sets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=935&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Comes First: The Moral, Or The Ecology?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are chicken and egg problems. And there are tail and dog problems. The thing is, I’m not sure which of these problems I’m facing at the moment in regards to defining moral ecology. I recently had a very fruitful, if highly critical, experience at the Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach workshop. Amidst the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=926&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Ecology Defined (At Last)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 07:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found myself confused about the meaning of the term &#8216;moral ecology.&#8217; This proved to be an unsettling experience, namely because I&#8217;m the one who coined the term (with a little help from John S. Wilkins). Given that moral ecology features centrally in my thesis, it&#8217;s probably important that I come to grips with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=922&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Old as a Barrier to the New</title>
		<link>http://ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/old-barrier-to-the-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Techdirt has an interesting piece on the follies of the publishing industry in shifting its business model over to ebooks and digital publishing, focusing on the utter and infuriating pointlessness of DRM, or digital rights management. It makes the salient point that DRM fails because it makes a legitimate product less useful, and therefore less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6080375&#038;post=919&#038;subd=ockhamsbeard&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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