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		<title>Catholic Values At Work: Subsidiarity, Solidarity &amp; Rep. Paul Ryan</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/05/17/catholic-values-at-work-subsidiarity-solidarity-rep-paul-ryan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dolan-Ryan Debate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CatholicCulture.org has produced a useful guide to media coverage of Rep. Paul Ryan&#8217;s speech at Georgetown University.  The story quite ably skewers news outlets for their wildly disparate interpretations of this speech. Scanning several headlines  is instructive. The Catholic World News (CWN) story headline is &#8220;Ryan defends compatibility of House budget with Catholic teaching.&#8221; However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Alasdair MacIntyre&#8217;s &#8220;God, Philosophy, Universities&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/05/13/review-of-alasdair-macintyres-god-philosophy-universities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the third anniversary of the publication of MacIntyre&#8217;s study of the development of philosophy over two and a half millennia CatholicCulture.org re-reviews this quite remarkable book. The review points out MacIntyre&#8217;s conception of philosphical development along three dimensions: God is the key to the unity of the universe and the nature and destiny of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy Terms in Images</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/05/12/philosophy-terms-in-images/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 23:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[philosophical terms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This is a clever rendering of philosophical terms as modern graphic designs.]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Social Teaching and the Ryan Budget</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/05/11/catholic-social-teaching-and-the-ryan-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/05/11/catholic-social-teaching-and-the-ryan-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dolan-Ryan Debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Witherspoon Institute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a well-publicized exchange between Cardinal Dolan of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Representative Paul Ryan debating whether Ryan&#8217;s proposed budget violated tenets of Catholic social teaching, Thomas Berg (professor of moral theology at St. Joseph&#8217;s Seminary in New York) and James Capretta (of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Values at Work: Pepsi and the Use of Human Embryonic Cells in Soft Drink Testing Procedures</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/05/01/catholic-values-at-work-pepsi-and-the-use-of-human-embryonic-cells-in-soft-drink-testing-procedures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/05/01/catholic-values-at-work-pepsi-and-the-use-of-human-embryonic-cells-in-soft-drink-testing-procedures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pepsi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human embryonic kidney cells]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Dead Philosophers Society was forwarded this message (below) from The Life Issues Institute today. The message announces the termination of a soft drink testing procedure that used human embryonic kidney cells. The odiousness of the procedure itself is self-evident and unethical but the prospect of national groups publicizing the use of human embryonic kidney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Books in Philosophy of Science</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/04/26/recommended-books-in-philosophy-of-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A well-respected philosophy blog asked its readers to recommend books for summer reading. Here is the list for the philosophy of science. The focus is a bit different than found in our philosophy of science course but it is an instructive list and worth a bit of exploration. Confirmation and Falsification Hempel, C. 1966. Philosophy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our First, Most Cherished Liberty &#8211; U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the HHS Mandate</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/04/24/our-first-most-cherished-liberty-u-s-conference-of-catholic-bishops-on-the-hhs-mandate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/04/24/our-first-most-cherished-liberty-u-s-conference-of-catholic-bishops-on-the-hhs-mandate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HHS Ruling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Our First, Most Cherished Liberty A Statement on Religious Liberty United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty We are Catholics. We are Americans. We are proud to be both, grateful for the gift of faith which is ours as Christian disciples, and grateful for the gift of liberty which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World as It Could Be: Catholic Social Thought for a New Generation</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/04/22/the-world-as-it-could-be-catholic-social-thought-for-a-new-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/04/22/the-world-as-it-could-be-catholic-social-thought-for-a-new-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookstore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new book exploring Catholic Social Doctrine by a professor of social doctrine at Rome&#8217;s Regina Apostolorum University has just been published and is reviewed at Catholic Online.  Fr. Thomas D. Williams discusses a topic under consideration just this last week here &#8212; the common good as understood in Catholic thought, and how that concept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Successful Online Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/04/22/another-successful-online-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/04/22/another-successful-online-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our week-long online conference is now over. However, you are invited to read and comment on the conference papers located in the April 2012 archive. We had five papers this year, the same as the number of papers last year. Comments were interesting and provoked several good exchanges. The DPS site had nearly 900 visitors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russell Hittinger on Jacques Maritain</title>
		<link>http://www.deadphilosopherssociety.com/2012/04/20/2231/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Birdsall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russell Hittinger, William K. Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, and author of texts often found in HACS syllabi, is interviewed about the newly republished book by Jacques Maritain, Scholasticism and Politics. The publisher says of Maritain: Maritain’s political philosophy limns the conditions necessary to make the individual more fully human [...]]]></description>
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