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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201303/integrating-emotional-trauma

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201303/i-ll-be-you-when-the-deal-goes-down

The comportment of emotional dwelling.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201302/everybody-s-changing-and-i-don-t-feel-the-same

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201302/varieties-love-and-loss

Hello, public philosophers. I'm part of the team that's running the workshop on 'Taking Philosophy into the Field' on Friday morning during the upcoming PPN meeting in Atlanta on March 14-16.

In case anyone wants to get a head start on thinking through some of the issues we'll be addressing at the workshop, I invite you to participate in the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective discussion of our recent article…

Preamble: An immensely significant phase of science is emerging. It explains why things exist the way they do. Its purview includes everything from the tiniest of subatomic particles to plant and animal species, planets and beyond. The…

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201210/climate-change-narcissism-denial-apocalypse

(For some reason this link only works if it is pasted into a browser.)

My latest project, although one that has been cooking for about a decade, is POLINITICS. Check it out and subscribe at

www.polinitics.com

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201209/what-did-we-learn-911

A little applied Heidegger for the general public.

I will be leading a workshop on Sagacity and Commerce at the March PPN conference. If anyone is interested in finding our more about it, please contact me at demcclean@hotmail.com .  Here is the workshop description:

Workshop: Sagacity and Commerce

David E. McClean, PhD

Rutgers University (Newark) and

Molloy College

Should academic philosophers increasingly turn their…

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201206/scientism-in-psychotherapy

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201205/human-beings-shining

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201205/trauma-death-resurrection-russian-american-conversation

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201204/blues-trauma-existential-vulnerability

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201204/deconstructing-psychiatrys-ever-expanding-bible

I just finished reading parts of  Dworkin's Justice for Hedgehogs. It claims to defend objectivism in ethics. Yet there is not a single mention of sentience, and of duties to non-human sentient beings.  (I may have missed a sentence).

That completely ignores the possibility that all moral value derives from the presence of consciousness and of feeling!

The entire Buddhist tradition -- perhaps as compassionate a tradition as we have had anywhere in human history -- must have been…

At Talking Philosophy, I argue that act-consequentialism can avoid the argument from integrity by biting the ultimate bullet: endorsing fatalism.

Philosophers ought to be interested in the Research Works Act, a bill currently before Congress.

10-step advice.