US Drone Strike Kills 4 in Pakistan

Source: My Fox Memphis

Local listings from all over 80,000 websites. A US drone attack early Saturday killed at least four militants… Bud weakened to a tropical storm Friday as it headed toward a … There are more than 70 checkpoints on Tennessee roadways this … The Group of 20 ...
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Hurricane Bud Now Tropical Storm

Source: My Fox Memphis

Local listings from all over 80,000 websites. Forecasters say the system that was once powerful Hurricane Bud… There are more than 70 checkpoints on Tennessee roadways this … The Group of 20 developed and developing nations should place … An ...
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Back to the future

Source: Irish Times

The Irish Times - Saturday, May 26, 2012 Brian Dillon teaches critical writing at the Royal College of Art in London. His most recent book is I Am Sitting in a Room (Cabinet, 2012) ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO, when the “theory wars” that had co ...
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Source: Irish Times

The Missing Shade of Blue, Jennie Erdal Abacus, £12.99 How does one find happiness in the modern world? The Scottish philosopher David Hume provides the framework – and the title – for this fictional exploration of life and love through the pris ...
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Free Will Isn't an Illusion, Either

Source: Big Think

Richard Marshall of 3:AM interviews the philosopher Eddie Nahmias about his work on free will. Everyone who would prefer not to be trapped in a thicket of confusion about free will ought to read this. I think Nahmias gets it righ ...
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Head vs. heart

Source: Ottawa Citizen

The National Mall in Washington D.C. is one of the worldâs great boulevards. Officially designated a national park, its tree-lined expanse runs from the Lincoln Memorial in the west to the Capitol in the east, ...
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Are humans getting better?

Source: Today Online

With daily headlines focusing on war, terrorism and the abuses of repressive governments, and religious leaders frequently bemoaning declining standards of public and private behaviour, it is easy to get the impression that we are witnessin ...
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Socrates acquitted in ancient trial re-run

Source: France 24

AFP - Judges narrowly acquitted Socrates, the philosopher whose teachings earned him a death sentence in ancient Athens, in a retrial Friday billed as a lesson for modern times of revolution and crisis. Socrates spoke himself at his trial in ...
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Lévy's Libya: a philosopher's phone call to arms against Gaddafi

Source: Guardian Unlimited

As a French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy is a creature perfectly unimaginable in Anglo-Saxon culture. In true Gallic style the philosopher is as famous for his luxuriant steel-grey mane, handmade black suits and crisp white shirts ...
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