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		<title>Health Care Reform and Scheduled Return</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I so don&#8217;t have time to write this post that it&#8217;s not even funny. I have 10 chapters (~375pp) of page proofs to get through in the next 9 days. But there&#8217;s something so irritating going on in the health care debate right now that, page proofs be damned, I have to take a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Solve the Tort Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite what Republicans would have you believe, the right to sue is an important one. People really do get screwed over all the time&#8211;by corrupt businesses, incompetent professionals, governmental entities with private agendas. &#8220;Tort reform&#8221; that makes life unpleasant for legitimate plaintiffs is simply unacceptable&#8211;the law is the last recourse of the little guy who&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://avromandina.net/avrom/2009/03/hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve updated this blog, and it&#8217;s going to be a while before I update it again, at least with anything contentful. I&#8217;ve been massively oversubscribed at work, and now I&#8217;m fighting off an illness to boot. I wanted to put up a post just to let everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Natural Kinds: Putnam&#8217;s Version</title>
		<link>http://avromandina.net/avrom/2008/12/the-trouble-with-natural-kinds-putnams-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a continuation of my posts on natrual kinds; see my take on Quine&#8217;s account of kinds, and my two-parter on Kripke&#8217;s account of kinds. Putnam&#8217;s views on issues of metaphysics and language have actually evolved extensively over time, and his main arguments for realism about natural kinds, which I&#8217;ll present here, do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Natural Kinds: Kripke’s Version, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://avromandina.net/avrom/2008/12/the-trouble-with-natural-kinds-kripke%e2%80%99s-version-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avrom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://avromandina.net/avrom/?p=199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I argued that, contra Kripke, when the baptismal origin of a natural kind term has none of the properties we associate with that term, the term no longer refers to a kind that includes its baptismal origin. I then promised that I argue that, when objects not &#8220;of the same kind&#8221; (in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Natural Kinds: Kripke&#8217;s Version</title>
		<link>http://avromandina.net/avrom/2008/12/the-trouble-with-natural-kinds-kripkes-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike my attack on Quine&#8217;s argument for natural kinds realism, my problems with Kripke&#8217;s natural kinds realism did make it into my dissertaion. My focus there wasn&#8217;t on natural kinds; it was, instead, on Kripke&#8217;s general theory of non-connotativity of certain terms (and natural kind terms are among them). But, at least for Kripke, non-connotativity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thing I Love About Technology</title>
		<link>http://avromandina.net/avrom/2008/12/the-thing-i-love-about-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is how it makes our lives so much easier. So, I think Dreamhost, or possibly WordPress, has done something that made my contact form stop sending me email. Problem is, I&#8217;m not sure *when* this happened; I have, at least, some hits on the contact form that didn&#8217;t result in my receiving any emails. So: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sinking Feeling</title>
		<link>http://avromandina.net/avrom/2008/12/a-sinking-feeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Songwriters, I&#8217;m sure, know it well, that tweak of deja vu when they listen to their last hook. It seems familiar, they think to themselves. Does it just seem familiar because I&#8217;ve been playing it so much, or is it that it&#8217;s an advertising jingle I heard when I was three? At any rate, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with Asymmetric Death in Damascus</title>
		<link>http://avromandina.net/avrom/2008/12/dealing-with-asymmetric-death-in-damascus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve been obsessed lately with a couple of really good posts over on Thoughts, Arguments, and Rants about decision theory. In particular, there&#8217;s this post about a game Brian Weatherson calls (for reasons that are clear if you read the post) &#8220;Asymmetric Death in Damascus.&#8221; Weatherson&#8217;s Original Example Here&#8217;s a quick summary of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Stronger Claim about Projectability</title>
		<link>http://avromandina.net/avrom/2008/12/a-stronger-claim-about-projectability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://avromandina.net/avrom/?p=168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I recently wrote a post that was intended to be an attack on Quine&#8217;s argument for natural kinds. And tucked away in the very last paragraph, I think I put the most important statement of the post: It&#8217;s really not just an attack on Quine&#8217;s argument. It&#8217;s an attack on a much more general [...]]]></description>
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