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July 16, 2012: Week in Review

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In his latest article, Rick Pimentel considers a shift in the way privacy is thought about in Western society and speculates on a possible reason for this shift.

Robert Wright, senior editor at The Atlantic and author of The Evolution of God considers the epistemic distance between our knowledge of reality and reality itself. He uses a mashup of the Higgs boson and Wittgenstein as his jumping off point.

September 28-29, 2012, at Indiana University, Bloomington. Website for the conference is here.

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