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Clay Jenkinson "The Philosopher and the Humanist"	Lawrence Cahoone "Philosophy of Hunting"	Charles L. Griswold "On Forgiveness"	Paul Gaffney "Competition, Society, and the Athlete"	Mark Stephen Jendrysik "America's So-Called Decline"

Paul Sum "Exporting Democracy"	Crystal Alberts "Literature in the Digital Age"	Eva Fedder Kittay "Justice, Caring, and the Mentally Disabled"	Sharona Hoffman "The Morality (and Legality) of Universal Healthcare"	Amartya Sen "The Other Economics: Welfare, Development, and Justice"

Harvey Siegel "What is Critical Thinking?"	Amelie Rorty "On Self-Deception"	Michael W. Apple "Ideology and Curriculum: 30 Years of a Discussion"	Brenna Daugherty "The Humanities in America: The Case for Public Funding"	Brian Leiter "The Profession of Philosophy"

Martha Nussbaum "Empathy, the Constitution and Sexual Orientation"	Clay Jenkinson "Eric Sevareid and the Philosophy of Journalism"	Paul Sum "Exporting Democracy Revisited: A Report From Romainia"	Robin Runge "Domestic Violence and the Law: China vs. the U.S.A."	Brian Leiter "The Profession of Philosophy Redux"

Charles Taylor "A Secular Age"	K. Anthony Appiah "Honor Codes and Moral Revolutions"	Rebecca Goldstein "Fiction as Philosophy"	Arthur C. Danto "Art and Philosophy"	Carol Gilligan "In A Different Voice and After"

Deborah Brandt "Is Ghostwriting Ethical?"	Michael Walzer "Are There Just Wars ?"	Jim Otteson "On Liberty and Libertarianism "	Panel Discussion "Growing Up North Dakotan "	Maughn Gregory "Teaching Philosophy for Children"

Jay Basquiat "Food and Sustainability"	Clay Jenkinson "The Philosophy of Water"	Lou Marinoff "Plato Not Prozac: What is Philosophical Counseling?"	Steven Pinker "Philosophy of Violence"	Stephanie Coontz "Philosophy of Marriage"

Gary Gutting "A House Divided: Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy"	Virginia Held "Should the Government Care About You?"	Deirdre McCloskey "What do we talk about when we talk about economics?"	Hal Herzog "Love, Hate or Eat: How Humans Relate to Animals"	Jan Golinski "Does science give us Truth?"


Stephen M. Bainbridge "Are Corporations People?"	James W. Loewen "Lies My Teacher Told Me"	WHY? Goes to China! "Interview with Jack Russell Weinstein"	WHY? Goes to China! Daniel Bell "Confucius and China Today"	WHY? Goes to China! Lynn King and Irving Steel "Environmental Without Protest"


WHY? Goes to China! Noukilla "Music Without Borders"	WHY? Goes to China! Catherine Gao and Sheryl Jiang "Young, Female, and Upwardly Mobile in Shanghai"	WHY? Goes to China! Yuyan Liu "The View From A Private High School"	Stefanie Rocknak "Philosophy ad Sculpture"	Stephen Darwall "The Moral Demands We Make on Others"


Clay Jenkinson interviews Jack Russell Weinstein "The Public Philosophy Experiment"	Taylor Branch "The NCAA and its Universities"	William Egginton "The Case for Religious Moderation"	Stephanie Ross "The Philosophy of Gardens"	Mary Jo Bang "The Philosophy of Poetry"

Claudia Card "A Secular Theory of Evil"	Tony Kushner "A Conversation with a Playwright"

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