Why morality is a sickness just for us humans
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Finding our morality in footbinding
Why Good is Good
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an epistolary novel: "You better not never tell nobody but God." * Entries, including postal...
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Output: still not really convinced
Views into the Chinese Room
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Proto-nerd meets pinball and Placido in popularisation bid
The Making of a Philosopher
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Gloves are like multiple personality
Historical Ontology
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Trying to put a value on virtue
Moral Dilemmas and Other Topics in Moral Philosophy - Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy
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Making a wrong into a right is the correct response
Ministries of Deception
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Laurie Taylor Column
" The renaming of courses for marketing reasons, especially when the names do not reflect the content of the course, is not helpful " - Jill Johnson of the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Alan Ryan
As affirmative action goes back to the US Supreme Court, the widespread belief is that diversity is a good thing. But is it? It's 25 years since the US Supreme Court decided - by the narrowest five-...
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Leader: Regulator will have little impact on real access
After weeks of hysteria over supposed social engineering, the brief for the Office for Fair Access begs the question: what was all the fuss about? The answer, of course, is that this week's proposals...
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King Edward II’s Death – Red-Hot Poker or Red Herring?
The grisly tale of Edward II’s murder may have been nothing more than a medieval con job, argues Ian Mortimer
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The last line of defence
John Lee Malvo could be executed if found guilty in the Washington sniper case. A local academic and his students are working to keep the teenager off death row. Walter Ellis reports Justice must not...
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Bellicose, intimidating? Moi?
There are no excuses for bullying, but there are reasons why it occurs. Valerie Atkinson considers some approaches to the problem Ask yourself what makes a bully. Unshackled power? Structural...
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Life's lethal quality control
A US businessman's claims to have found the unseen architect of evolution fell on deaf ears. But after a string of coincidences, some scientists are starting to listen. Geoff Watts reports One day in...