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What Sorts course
I’ll be teaching a fairly large, mixed grad / undergrad seminar this coming semester as an ethics course with the working title that coincides with the blog: what sorts of people should there be… more →
What Sorts of People
What Sorts course
Spirit of our Time wrote 6 hours ago: I’ll be teaching a fairly large, mixed grad / undergrad seminar this coming semester as an eth … more →
Sesame Street Reaches Middle Age
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Spirit of our Time wrote 2 weeks ago: As someone as interested as much in the sorts of people we as a society think valuable as in the pro … more →
Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy
Spirit of our Time wrote 2 weeks ago: Readers of the blog who followed our Thinking in Action series of blog posts on the above-named conf … more →
Human Kinds--The Categories of Sexual Orientation in Law, Science, and Society--Part 1
Spirit of our Time wrote 3 months ago: The first part of Ed Stein’s talk at the Human Kinds symposium on sexual orientation, especial … more →
Human Kinds--The Categories of Sexual Orientation in Law, Science, and Society--Part 2
Spirit of our Time wrote 3 months ago: Ed Stein’s talk at the Human Kinds symposium, Part the Second. Here Ed focuses on the appeal t … more →
Mad Pride on National (US) News
biella wrote 3 months ago: FYI: ********************************************************** MindFreedom Update — Tuesday, … more →
Human Kinds--Species Typical, Sub-typical, Beyond Typical--Part 2
Spirit of our Time wrote 3 months ago: Gregor Wolbring in full swing on ableism and its relationship to sexism, racism, caste bias, anti-en … more →
Human Kinds--Species Typical, Sub-typical, Beyond Typical--Part 1
Spirit of our Time wrote 3 months ago: Here is Gregor Wolbring’s talk at the Human Kinds Symposium, including my introduction of Greg … more →
Thinking about Incest 7: A Westermarckian Cluster
Spirit of our Time wrote 6 months ago: In past few posts in this series, I have tried to stay close to the view of what the Westermarck Eff … more →
DisRespect Radio Broadcast: Barb Farlow and Rob Wilson
In Darkest Night wrote 6 months ago: Many of you have likely been following the case of Annie Farlow (Here is a listing of all our Annie … more →
Thinking about Incest 5: Just How Encompassing IS the Westermarck Effect?
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Spirit of our Time wrote 6 months ago: As characterized so far in previous posts, the scope of the Westermarck Effect seems quite narrow in … more →
Thinking about Incest 4: Getting more Explicit about the Westermarck Effect
Spirit of our Time wrote 6 months ago: In previous posts in this series, I talked about genetic sexual attraction, incest, and some current … more →
Thinking about Incest 3: Westermarck, Fritzl, and Incest
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Spirit of our Time wrote 6 months ago: The first pair of posts in this series looked at genetic sexual attraction, or what I suggested migh … more →
Listening to Madness
In Darkest Night wrote 6 months ago: Newsweek has run an article (May 2, 2009) on patients classified as “mentally ill” refus … more →
Thinking about Incest 2: GSA and Incest
Spirit of our Time wrote 6 months ago: Let’s start with five public reactions to the CBC story Forbidden Love–starting with the … more →
Thinking about Incest 1: Forbidden Love
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Spirit of our Time wrote 6 months ago: Yesterday, the CBC ran the story Forbidden Love, on sexual feelings between genetically-related indi … more →
Getting Burlesque in Edmonton, May 8th
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Spirit of our Time wrote 7 months ago: Our friends at the Alberta Public Interest Research Group (APIRG) have a fun fund-raiser coming up i … more →
The Fragility of "Normal"
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jackieostrem wrote 7 months ago: This week’s print edition of Maclean’s features an article by Mark Steyn blaming gay rig … more →
Int J of Disability, Community and Rehabilitation Special Issue on Nanotechnology, Disability, Community and Rehabilitation
wolbring wrote 8 months ago: New in the Int J of Disability, Community and Rehabilitation (IJDCR) The issue can be found here An … more →
