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		<title>Concussions and Informed Consent</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2013/06/10/concussions-and-informed-consent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bioethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concussions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My soon to be 10 year old step-son wants to play football. I guess this should not come as a surprise. He has watched me get entertained by the sport for as long as he can remember. I taught him how to throw a football, run a crisp stop and go, and had many discussions [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=629&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Contributors</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2013/06/09/new-contributors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notes on Contributors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to welcome our newest contributors to A Philosopher&#8217;s Take, Lee Elkin and Ray Aldred. Lee recently accepted an offer from the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU in Munich to pursue his PhD. His interests lie in Epistemology, Time, Practical Reasoning, Decision Theory, Philosophy of Mind, Wittgenstein, and Philosophy of Science.  [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=626&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data Analysis, Models, and Knowledge (Applied Epistemology)</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2013/02/21/data-analysis-models-and-knowledge-applied-epistemology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Elkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowledge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of my recent philosophical research has been in the area of epistemology&#8212;the theory of knowledge. Knowledge is a familiar concept among most people, but mainstream epistemology has turned it into something that is only shared within the small confines of philosophers. As a consequence, epistemologists have robbed common folk of knowledge! The transformation of knowledge [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=606&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Know How&#8217; or &#8216;Know That&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2013/02/20/know-how-or-know-that/</link>
		<comments>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2013/02/20/know-how-or-know-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akrasia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Know-How]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Know-That]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[**I know that moving the pedals forward moves a bike. I know that holding on to the handlebars and turning them when appropriate will steer the bike. I know that squeezing the right lever on the handle bars will engage the rear brake and slow down the bike’s momentum. Do I know how to ride a bike? Intellectually, I can explain to someone [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=517&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Blameworthiness Require Wrongdoing?</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2013/02/11/does-blameworthiness-require-wrongdoing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral Responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blame requires Wrongness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral Permissibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obligation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suberogatory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A commonly held presupposition is that a person can be blameworthy only for acts that are considered morally wrong. I&#8217;ll refer to this as the &#8216;blameworthiness requires wrongness&#8217; (BW) principle. Recently, a few philosophers began denying this principle citing cases where it is morally permissible to act in a certain way even though such acts [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=381&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Babies Unlock the Origins of Morality? Not So Fast.</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/11/19/can-babies-unlock-the-origins-of-morality-not-so-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/11/19/can-babies-unlock-the-origins-of-morality-not-so-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innate Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral Judgment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature vs. Nurture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Bloom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent Psychological studies suggest that babies have an innate moral sense.  On October 18th, CBS aired &#8220;The Baby Lab&#8221; ( it&#8217;s worth the 13 minutes for anyone interested in the Origins of Morality)where they interviewed Psychologists Paul Bloom and Karen Wynn. Both claim that their studies are telling of the &#8220;the origins of morality&#8220;. This suggests [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=270&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Neither Candidate Should Get Our Vote.</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/11/06/why-neither-candidate-should-get-our-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politcs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alasdair MacIntyre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obligation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a quoted segment of this piece. In it, MacIntyre argues that we should not cast a vote for either candidate. Quite the take. Though I agree with his take on the presidency I still think people should vote for particular issues on the ballot as those votes will matter in their respective states. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=265&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Blame</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/09/26/the-nature-of-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moral Responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reactive Attitudes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the nature of blame? Recently, I took my prelim exam in the Philosophy of Mind and one of the questions I answered was on the reactive attitudes and their effect on how we perceive what the nature of blame is. I found the question quite intriguing, and, the purpose of this post will be [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=160&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Identity: Who are you? What am I?</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/09/26/personal-identity-who-are-you-what-am-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metaphysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here, I&#8217;ll be discussing the problem of personal identity. My aim is to offer a brief historical account of the problem touching briefly on bodily identity followed by Hume&#8217;s take on it. &#8216;Psychological continuity theories&#8217; (PCT) are most popular (Parfit, Noonan, etc.) but I won&#8217;t discuss the details of them in this post (future posts). [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=196&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Built This City</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/09/07/we-built-this-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metaphysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politcs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Persons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago on The Public Discourse, Professor Anthony Esolen offered a fresh and creative criticism of Barack Obama’s now infamous “you didn’t build that” comment, challenging the President’s political statement with a largely metaphysical argument. However, my fear is that Professor Esolen’s argument may not appropriate a proper eye towards the political building [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=239&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Free Will Problem&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/08/13/the-free-will-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this post is simple; to navigate through some of the different positions one could take regarding the &#8216;problem of free will&#8216;. I&#8217;ve been asked by some to go over the basics, so, here it goes. I&#8217;ll define the major terms internal to the debate  to give readers a bit more context and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=209&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neuroscience and Free Will: New study debunks Libet&#8217;s interpretation</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/08/10/neuroscience-and-free-will-new-study-debunks-libets-interpretation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The interconnection of neuroscience and free will has many researchers trying to make bold claims about their findings. In my last post I called Sam Harris&#8217; conclusion that &#8220;free will is an illusion&#8221; into question. Specifically, I suggested that there were competing interpretations that could be made from the data that neuroscientist Benjamin Libet was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=172&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Why Sam Harris needs to read more Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/07/29/free-will-why-sam-harris-needs-to-read-more-philosophy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book &#8216;Free Will&#8217; (2012) Sam Harris offers up the conclusion that &#8220;free will is an illusion&#8221;. I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m surprised given the fact that  many neuroscientists have offered up similar responses to the free will problem (Libet 83&#8242;, 99&#8242;, 01&#8242;, 03&#8242;, among others) . But, falling in line with Libet and other neuroscientists [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=178&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>James Holmes: How his case can shed light on discussions of Moral Responsibility.</title>
		<link>http://aphilosopherstake.com/2012/07/24/james-holmes-how-his-case-can-shed-light-on-discussions-of-moral-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog post in Scientific American the author, Larry Geenemeier, suggests that the accused Colorado Shooter was lacking cognitive control and points specifically to one&#8217;s cognitive ability in order to try to make sense of the actions in Aurora, Colorado and other recent events by similarly profiled assailants. Though I agree that we [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=105&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obamacare: Are the Libertarian Oppositions to the SCOTUS decision warranted?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Caouette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, nearly everyone with access to this blog knows that SCOTUS has upheld the Obamacare bill. This has caused an uproar with Libertarian folks as well as those who might not call themselves Libertarians but who think gov&#8217;t telling them what they must buy is inappropriate. I&#8217;ll be discussing the objections levied by the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aphilosopherstake.com&#038;blog=36386379&#038;post=148&#038;subd=aphilosopherstake&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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