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		<title>If You Want a Better Life, Don’t Stress Over Your Choices</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Gubbins
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

“What is a good life?”
Isn&#8217;t that a big, wonderful question? Isn&#8217;t that the question we should all be asking ourselves?
I strongly suspect that unless we have wandered into a philosophy class, we are not asking that question, nor will we find that question dominating the Blogosphere, Facebook, Twitter, or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of General Moral Principles</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Mulnix
Philosophy Department



Michael Mulnix


One commonly held belief in the study of ethics takes moral claims to be somehow dependent upon social and individual circumstance, wherein the moral status of an action is a function of the environment in which it is carried out. The position of &#8216;moral particularism,&#8217; however, uses this commonsense belief to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randy Pausch and Teaching Life&#8217;s Big Issues</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rod Kessler
English Department
Of all the journals and periodicals in the world, it would surprise anyone who knows me well that I might take inspiration from Parade, that glossy insert to the Boston Globe whose celebrity news column typically raises such pertinent questions as which film star has the best abs (Mario Lopez) and whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligent Design, Scientific Practice, and Educational Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Hayward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Kelly
Biology Department
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” &#8211; Bertrand Russell
The well-publicized battles between evolutionary theory and the religious beliefs of some fundamentalists are just the latest in a series of struggles against the advancement of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication or Coercion? Point-Counterpoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 04:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rob Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 17, Communications professors Robert Brown and Mark Zaitchik met at the invitation of the Salem State chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the Communications Honor Society, to discuss the very heart of their department&#8217;s business-the business of communications. Professor Brown brings the insights of a practitioner to the classroom. He has worked for a [...]]]></description>
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