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		<title>Do you have any questions about the final paper or final exam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Response to comments on &#8220;Responses to &#8216;Objectivism&#8230;&#8217;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What new insight have you gained on the degree to which Rand relies on empirical results for support of her theories? Is there something general you can say about her empiricism and her theory, or the combination of the two? Well this is one interesting thing about Rand, and one thing that Michael Huemer brings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utilitynussbaumrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=400020&amp;post=30&amp;subd=utilitynussbaumrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nussbaum on Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I told Amanda that I would comment on the last section of FRONTIERS OF JUSTICE: DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, SPECIES MEMBERSHIP, by Martha C. Nussbaum. Harvard University Press, 2006. The last section focuses on how the capabilities approach handles the topic of animals and how to value them. Nussbaum rejects social contract approaches to animal welfare, because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utilitynussbaumrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=400020&amp;post=24&amp;subd=utilitynussbaumrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Responses to &#8220;Objectivism, the Philosophy of Ayn Rand&#8221; by Leonard Peikoff (section on Government)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I’ve done here is take various passages directly from Leonard Peikoff’s book, Objectivism, the Philosophy of Ayn Rand (specifically, the section on Government) and presented them in italics. My response to each passage is in regular type. Since Rand appointed Peikoff as the “heir” to Objectivism, I have treated his analysis of Rand’s writings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utilitynussbaumrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=400020&amp;post=22&amp;subd=utilitynussbaumrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Martha Nussbaum: Female Human Beings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Response to Martha Nussbaum’s: Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings In this article, Nussbaum lays out her capabilities approach very similarly to the way she does in her book Women and Human Development. Nussbaum starts her argument from the stance that in order to fight for women’s rights, we should start with what should start from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utilitynussbaumrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=400020&amp;post=21&amp;subd=utilitynussbaumrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summary of Martha Chen&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Right to Employment in India and Bangladesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Response to Martha Chen&#8217;s A Matter of Survival: Women&#8217;s Right to Employment in India and Bangladesh In this article, Martha Chen tracks the history of the food-for-work program in South Asia, and the struggle women have had to go through to be able to work and provide enough money and food for their families. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utilitynussbaumrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=400020&amp;post=20&amp;subd=utilitynussbaumrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Huemer&#8217;s 8 Objections to Rand: A Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A response to Michael Huemer’s “Critique of ‘The Objectivist Ethics’” My comments this week will serve as an introduction to a more in-depth commentary on Michael Huemer’s article “Critique of ‘The Objectivist Ethics.’” Overall I must say that this article does reflect my general impression thusfar about Rand, but there are a lot of places [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utilitynussbaumrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=400020&amp;post=17&amp;subd=utilitynussbaumrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Sen Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question One: Description of Process Rights and substantive freedoms. Problems with description &#8211; I really don&#8217;t have any problems with this description with your clarifications. I really actually support this view very much, and he makes a very good point that these are &#8220;lesser&#8221; if other substantive freedom that enable people to achieve their goals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utilitynussbaumrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=400020&amp;post=16&amp;subd=utilitynussbaumrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Development Ethics and Globalization &#8211; David Crocker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In Development Ethics and Globalization, David Crocker explores Globalization and all the questions that it exposes and uncovers in today’s world. These questions start from things so basic, as is globalization a good/bad thing to detailed plans on how to go about globalization in order to provide the most benefit for all those involved. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utilitynussbaumrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=400020&amp;post=14&amp;subd=utilitynussbaumrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J.J.C. Smart in Utilitarianism: for and against</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[J.J.C. Smart in Utilitarianism: for and against       I read the first forty-two pages of Utilitarianism: for and against (which were authored, as is the whole first half, by J.C.C. Smart). The selection was divided into 5 parts, excluding the introduction: act- vs. rule-utilitarianism, hedonistic vs. non-hedonistic utilitarianism, average vs. total happiness, negative utilitarianism, and rightness/wrongness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=utilitynussbaumrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=400020&amp;post=13&amp;subd=utilitynussbaumrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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