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		<title>You Cannot Be Serious</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Papineau, Knowing the Score, How Sport teaches us about Philosophy (and Philosophy about Sport), Constable, 2017, pp. 328 &#160; The sub-title to David Papineau&#8217;s book suggests a pair of objectives. They are, of course, open to interpretation. For example, it is eminently clear that the author is not concerning himself with the question of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln Allison, emeritus reader in politics, University of Warwick, is reading Robert Macfarlane&#8217;s Mountains of the Mind (Granta, 2003) &#160; Mountains were: forbidden and forbidding, an odious nuisance, God-forsaken and ugly, an &#8220;other&#8221; to be avoided. Mountains are: sublime and beautiful, a challenge and a sustenance for the human spirit, God&#8217;s finest creation and an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln Allison, emeritus reader in politics, University of Warwick, is reading James Hawes&#8217; The Shortest History of Germany (Old Street Publishing, 2017) &#160; I was given this book in a pub by a friend who had just finished it: brushing up on German history with a quick summary seemed an excellent idea. Except that it [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grand Tour and the European Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       We just did the Grand Tour. Again! All the way from Royal Leamington Spa to the Ionian Sea and back, a little under four thousand miles. Whereas our ancestors (well, probably not literally our ancestors) took three years over the job we did it in a little over three weeks. And whereas they did [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Heroes Have Sharp Swords</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rayvon Fouché, Game Changer: the techno-scientific revolution in sports, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2017, pp. 262 &#160; A starting claim of Game Changer is that the impact of technology on sport in the last thirty years is on a different scale from anything previously. A great deal of the book covers the familiar issues [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Chalet Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ - the best thing about the chalet for me was as a 19-year old undergraduate (the first time) I met Old Members who were priests, barristers, civil servants, etc in very informal circumstances and learned a lot about the world that I wouldn’t otherwise have learned. I note that most of the photos you have [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Assessing the Worth of Assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       In a lifetime as a self-appointed &#8220;essayist&#8221; I have published over a thousand articles. There are all kinds of ambiguities about that figure including revisions and syndications, but it a rough indication. Mostly they were part of continuing series and the vast majority fell &#8220;still-born from the press&#8221; to use David Hume&#8217;s rather chilling [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What is University Sport for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       When I was an undergraduate I shared some philosophy tutorials with a man called Ray Weedon. I knew that he played tennis and that he represented South Africa in the Davis Cup, but that was the only tennis fact about him I knew. Last week, fifty years later, I looked up his record and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Curious Fate of the Campus Sexual Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       One day in 1981 I noticed that a woman I had passed in the street and tried to greet, the friend of a friend, had studiously ignored me. A couple of weeks later she appeared to cross the road to avoid me, chin jutting determinedly away from my direction. So far as I knew [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Brexit: the Wonderful Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[     My first reaction on hearing about the Brexit vote was apprehension about the short- and medium-term consequences. My second was sympathy for the losers (but where was all that pro-European emotion during the campaign?). My third was the complete rescinding of the second and an onset of schadenfreude. They were such bad losers. During [&#8230;]]]></description>
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