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Library filters and the dangers of censoring hate speech

Why Libraries Must Not Use Software Filters to Censor Speech: One Person's Hate is Another Person's Political Philosophy

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Arguments for legalizing marijuana in the United States

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Locke's empiricism and the problem of necessary truths

Given that experience is argued to be the foundation of knowledge (according to Locke) how - if at all - does Locke make room for what Leibniz would call 'necessary truths'?

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Is there credible scientific evidence supporting creationism?

Creationism: Is there any Credible Evidence to Support it? In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) This quotation from the Bible plus numerous others from the religious books of various religions lead us to believe that man, the earth, and the rest of the universe…

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Challenging the Standard Social Science Model's view of human nature

If the Standard Social Science Model is mistaken, then we are less altruistic than would otherwise be the case'.

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Victorian anti-rationalism: Newman, Pater, and Arnold's rejection of utilitarianism

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Women and gender in Islamic history and contemporary contexts

The war in Iraq has shone attention on the plight of women in the Middle East. For many scholars, the issue of the rights of women as mandated in Islamic texts and the role of Muslim women in the contemporary Islamic world is one of the most pressing issues.

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Why college remains unaffordable and unworthy

It's become a widely recognized fact. College is expensive, and saddles students with lifelong debts. Moreover, observation shows that people learn very little in college and that knowledge and talent in a field may be unrelated to the degrees that one has.

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Turgenev and Marx: contrasting visions of human suffering and society

Since humans have lived together there have been queries about how and why humans acts the way they do, not just individually, but how they form partnerships, groups and are able to cooperate enough for survival and the future possibilities for society. In particular.

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Martin Gansberg's "37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police"

Everyone likes to think that they would do the right thing when the time demanded it. However, in the modern world that is full of uncertainties, we often do not perform as well as we wish we would in dire situations.

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