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		<description><![CDATA[How should the state regulate reproductive technologies? The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was created in order to deal with the moral issues surrounding embryonic selection. It was based on the assumption that the embryo was said to have a &#8220;special moral status&#8221; that exists over and above the interests of the parents. Embryologists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=180&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Folk Moral Relativism Study</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Folk Moral Relativism Hagop Sarkissian, John Park, David Tien, Jennifer Cole Wright and Joshua Knobe (2011) in their forthcoming paper “Folk Moral Relativism” claim that philosophers have been guilty of making sweeping claims about the nature of folk intuitions about morality, in particular the assumption that the folk are committed to moral objectivism. The primary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=172&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Folk Moral Relativism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Folk Moral Intutions and Moral Philosophy Introduction An increasing number of philosophers, who both defend and criticise moral realism, are recognising that meta-ethical debates are constrained and can be informed by empirical work in the domain of the natural sciences, such as those of neuroscience, psychology, and evolution. However, a large number of philosophers are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=166&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cardiff Postgraduate Philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of philosophy events that are available to postgraduates at Cardiff university. Perhaps the most easily accessible is the Postgraduate reading group. This meets weekly on Thursday at 5.30pm in the room opposite C Norris&#8217;s office and is open to all postgraduates and 3rd year undergraduates who want to find out more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=163&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The qualitative nature of the commodity in Marx’s Capital</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the opening chapter of Capital, Marx promptly postulates the commodity as the essential constituent of capitalist society then first treats of it in the following way.[i] The commodity is Janus-faced.  It may be considered from either of two exclusive but nonetheless indissociable perspectives, one qualitative the other quantitative. This brief entry critically considers the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=149&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Althusser&#8217;s materialist theory of ideology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This entry takes issue with a thesis central to Louis Althusser’s theory of ideology.[i] In brief, it shall be argued that, if the least to be said about ‘ideology’ is that it denotes a pre-established set of ideas, notions or beliefs that determine in advance an individual’s manifest thought, judgements or attitudes, then Althusser’s theory [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=147&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assumptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many definitions for ‘ideology.’ Each agree at least (but not necessarily only) in so far as all denote a pre-established set of ideas, notions or beliefs that determine in advance an individual’s manifest thought, judgements or attitudes. But this is rarely all that is said about ideology, nor is it said about ideology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=126&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Social Intuitionist Model of Moral Judgement SIM</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Social Intuitionist Model of Model of Moral Judgment The Socialist Intuitionist Model of Moral Judgment [SIM] proposed by J Haidt and F Bjorklund et al aims to give a descriptive account of where our moral beliefs come from and the process that enter into their formation. They then claim that this descriptive information not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=112&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy Seminars in Cardiff Autumn 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following Seminars take place in Cardiff at the Graduate Centre on  Park Place in the Vaughan Room from 4.15pm to 6pm.  They are open to the public so please feel free to attend. &#160; Monday 9th November 2009 The dialectic of the dialectic of Sex by Stella Sandford &#160; Monday 23rd November 2009 Projection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=110&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Morality Book Review part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Evolution of Morality by Richard Joyce part 1 Joyce’s book is in two parts. The first part argues for the thesis that humans have an innate disposition to make moral judgements and that the present day existence of such a trait is because it passed on a reproductive advantage to our ancestors who had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narcissismofsmalldifferences.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9864479&amp;post=107&amp;subd=narcissismofsmalldifferences&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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