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		<title>A Modal Analysis of Free Will</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem of God&#8217;s omniscience was incidentally brought up in my metaphysics class and we had a brief discussion about how the arguments might be symbolized in modal logic.  This spurred my interest in spelling out the notion of free will in  terms of possible worlds.
My first thought was that if I am free, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Natural and the Moral</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 05:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Is-Ought/Naturalistic fallacy has come up a number of times in my intro classes this semester.  First, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that I have had trouble finding clear definitions of these things &#8211; even the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy goes so far as to mention that the definitions are not agreed upon amongst professional philosophers.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing without seeing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had lucid dreams before and they are always interesting experiences, but a couple of days ago I had one that was especially noteworthy.  I can&#8217;t recall much of the detail, but it doesn&#8217;t much matter.  I remember peeling what seemed like a hard-boiled egg but which turned out to have some kind of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Animal Suffering</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewtchau.com/?p=122</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled across a version of the problem of evil (given by Peter Singer &#8211; though he is not the first to point it out, it is an especially important matter for him) that strikes me as especially problematic for the Judeo-Christian concept of God.  In case you don&#8217;t know the basic version, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misconceptions about Skepticism</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewtchau.com/?p=93</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[aka: Stop beating the dead straw-man!
Skepticism has to be one of the most widely misunderstood views in all of philosophy.  It is understandable that the folk-concept of skepticism (i.e., the average everyday person&#8217;s concept) is somewhat vague and generally wrong.  However, I recently came across a journal article (that was actually published) which summarized arguments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tyger</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewtchau.com/?p=87</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the bridal shower, one of the games was &#8220;how well does the bride know the groom?&#8221;  And Nicole had to answer a bunch of questions about my favorite things (she passed with flying colors!).  Anyway, I randomly remembered Blake&#8217;s poem, which is easily my historical if not all time favorite:
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedding Links</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewtchau.com/?p=78</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just added some links to the right.  Wedding info has some tidbits and stuff about us and the wedding party (but the registry link on that page only goes to Bed Bath and Beyond).  The wedding map has all kinds of useful info &#8211; location of Cullen&#8217;s, places to stay, places to eat, places [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Course Evaluations</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewtchau.com/?p=75</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got the course evaluations back from the Intro Phil classes I taught last semester&#8230; sadly only about 12 people out of 150 bothered to fill them out.  The good news is that the feedback was nearly all positive.  The main complaint was about the textbook, which is the one part of the course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>used to</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewtchau.com/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Language]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We get so used to the English language that it becomes easy to overlook the many oddities and exceptions that a non-native speaker would find baffling.  I used not to care much about such things, but over time my attention to the nuances and mysteries of language has become second nature.  Of course, we have all competently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Translucing</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewtchau.com/?p=39</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Post-modernism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m rereading a book by Nabokov called Transparent Things and I say &#8216;rereading&#8217; but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve really read it before.  You know how sometimes your eyes skim over the words on a page and even though you see and understand the words you fail to digest any of it?  I do that too [...]]]></description>
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