Steve Watson

02/05/2009	Confucians can torture
	Confucian pursuit of virtue really can't be interpreted as forbidding all harms to others.
19/07/2008	Confucian canonical literature
	A helpful diagram.
04/07/2008	Reason has its Place
	A reply to a comment by Colin McGinn, putting the case for some humility in applying our reasoning powers.
24/06/2008	Pointless Art
	Modern Art. Huh! What is it good for?
10/06/2008	Art and Pornography
	Reflections inspired by the recent controversy over Bill Henson's pictures.
12/05/2008	Unilateral Declaration of Peace
	A modest proposal for the Middle East.
11/05/2008	The Use of Wikipedia
	Wikipedia embodies a rival, inferior vision of scholarship
08/05/2008	T-Legality - A Modality for Legal Activism
	Apparently making a law that P means that P is the case. What would a logic for that look like?
05/05/2008	The Intrinsic Value of Plants
	The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology is convinced by the 'Last Man' Argument
25/02/2008	A Real Reason to Value Linguistic Diversity
	We should regret the loss of even small languages, because languages tell us about our mental architecture
22/02/2008	I Will if You Will (Save the World)
	Ross Garnaut’s interim report on what Australia can do to stop Global Warming will commit us to nothing
21/02/2008	On Castro's Resignation
	Thoughts on the Occasion of Castro’s Resignation with reference to a conversation that I had with a small group of graduate students
19/02/2008	The Three-State Solution
	The two-State solution isn't looking too likely
17/02/2008	Secret Lawyers' Business
	Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations indicates that he believes that there's nothing to apologise for