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(Richard J. Eisner: 1-818-343-0123; richard@richardeisner.com). Writings by Richard Eisner can be found at "philosophy-in-LA.tribe.net". Once at the site, scroll down to the list of subjects, and click on the "topics" tab at the top of that section. Then click on any subject to view it. Topic-titles and posting-dates of Eisner's items are these: "When is war justified?" (12-3-04, 1-9-05, and 2-13-05); "Can science improve ethics?" ("On Egoism: A Rebuttal" 1-9-05); "The value of a world view" (2-13-05); "Animation Project" (on determinism) (3-12-05); "Why are we here?" (4-2-05); "Free Will" (4-23-05 and 8-25-07); "On Flew's 'Theology and Falsification'" (5-29-05 and 10-22-05); "The Ethics of Belief" (7-9-05 and 8-27-05); "Monarchy" (8-7-05); "Towing Jehova" (9-24-05; 12-26-05; and 1-28-06); "Utopia" (10-29-05); "On Language, Linguisticality, and the Practice of Philosophy" (3-4-06); "Inherent Limits of Reason & Science" (4-1-06); "What does it mean to understand something?" (11-25-06); "Why Be Moral?" (2-2-07); "Foolish Consistency" (3-8-07); "Buddhist Theories of the Mind" ("Four Critiques of Buddhism" 11-17-07); "Can one rationally convert to a religion?" (5-20-08; 8-31-08; 11-8-08; and ("On the Impossibility of Knowledge, Free Will, and God" 5-24-09)); "The things that influence how people vote" ("Why the Left Should Vote" 6-7-08); "Speciesism / Anthropomorphism—Is it Justified?" (9-30-08); "Defining Conservatism and Liberalism" (11-27-08 and 12-2-08); "What does it mean to be irrational?" (12-25-08; 1-24-09; 3-18-09; and 4-25-09); "Humor: what makes something funny?" ("Mark Twain Ghost Speech" 7-4-09); "What is a boundary, and is it real or mind-created?" (7-28-09); "The Afterlife or the Soul---Is it Plausible?" (8-29-09); and "Education: What purpose(s) should it have?" (9-26-09).