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		<title>Case Study 1: Who Is the Victim?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Freedom and Determinism
 Case Study 1: Who Is the Victim?
 Sophistry and Illusion
In May 2006, Jerry Buck Inman raped and murdered Tiffany Marie Souers in her apartment.  Souers was a 20-year-old engineering student at Clemson University in South Carolina. Inman, a registered sex offender, spent 18 years in jail for rapes that he committed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Call for Civil Disobedience</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Al Gore has recently called upon young people to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration:
&#8220;If you&#8217;re a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Luck and Sophie&#8217;s Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Where a significant aspect of what someone does depends upon factors beyond his control, yet we continue to treat him in that respect as an object of moral judgment, it can be called moral luck.”   – Thomas Nagel, “Moral Luck”
 
Nagel argues that moral luck threatens to undermine moral responsibility and our ordinary practices of praising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Kind of Veggie Burger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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PETA has offered a $1 Million reward to the first scientist able to produce in vitro meat that is indistinguishable from real meat. PETA explains that the meat would be produced from animal stem cells that have been “placed in a medium to grow and reproduce.” The decision to support in vitro meat production was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akratic gamblers sue Ontario casinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addicted gamblers in Ontario have launched a $3.5B lawsuit against the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation in Toronto.  
The gamblers claim that they signed up for a &#8217;self-exclusion&#8217; program that was not adequately enforced.  
This is an interesting (albeit unsuccessful) instance of self-control.  
The gamblers in this case seem to have freely imposed limits upon their freedom. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Singer meets Crawley</title>
		<link>http://sophistryandillusion.com/philosophy-interviews/peter-singer-meets-crawley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great interview with Australian Philosopher, Peter Singer.

You can view all three parts in our video gallery.
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