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Battin, Margaret P. | Cases for kids: using puzzles to teach aesthetics to children | Nothing stupefies kids (I have in mind young people, though the same is true of many adults) as quickly as long-winded, jargon-filled, highly abstract theoretical discourse, especially when it seems to have no immediate utility. Kids like fun. They like play; they like games; they like challenges an... | Aesthetics; Education; Children; Puzzles | 1994 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Common need for classical epistemological foundations: against a feminist alternative | The difficulties of justifying a recipe for scientific inquiry that calls for sensory experience and logic as sole ingredients can hardly be overestimated. Resolving the riddles of induction, steadily mounting against empiricism since Hume, has come to seem like an exercise in making bricks without... | Epistomology; Feminism; Sensory experience; Logic; Inductive inference | 1994 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Death ethics: religious and cultural values in prolonging and ending life | In this sequel to his earlier Birth Ethics, Kenneth Vaux again uses what he calls a 'multiphasic ethical scheme," incorporating naturalistic, humanistic, and theistic values to explore the issues of suicide, euthanasia, letting die, genocide, withdrawing life supports, and other end-of-life issues. | | 1994 |
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Newman, Lex | Descartes on unknown faculties and our knowledge of the external world | Descartes introduces his skeptical arguments, in the First Meditation, in an order of increasing strength. First, the narrator-meditator notices that judgments concerning the nature of small and distant objects are unreliable; later, that even sensory judgments about large and close objects are in d... | Corporeal existence; Skeptical argument | 1994 |
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Battin, Margaret P.; Francis, Leslie; Jacobson, Jay A. | Patients' understanding and use of advance directives | The Patient Self-Determination Act was implemented in December 1991. Before and after its implementation, we used a structured interview of 302 randomly selected patients to determine their awareness, understanding, and use of advance directives. Implementation of the Act did not have a major eff... | Living will; Medical care; Durable power of attorney | 1994 |
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Battin, Margaret P.; Jacobson, Jay A.; Francis, Leslie P. | Patients' understanding and use of advance directives | The Patient Self-Determination Act was implemented in December 1991. Before and after its implementation, we used a structured interview of 302 randomly selected patients to determine their awareness, understanding, and use of advance directives. Implementation of the Act did not have a major effec... | | 1994 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Review of Michael Gorman, Simulating Science | Michael Gorman has several projects in Simulating Science. First, he presents a reaearch program of psychological experiments on scientific reasoning. Second, he defends an interdisciplinary approach to science studies. Third, he critically examines recent computer models of scientific theorizing an... | Psychological experiments; Reasoning in psychology; Psychological literature | 1994 |