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Andreou, Chrisoula | Communicative Action and Rational Choice by Joseph Heath [review] | A review of Communicative Action and Rational Choice, in which the author, Joseph Heath, develops an insightful account of practical reason that builds on his critical evaluations of both Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action and the instrumental conception of rationality. | Action; Communication; Rationality; Choice; Book review | 2002 |
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Millgram, Elijah | Does the categorical imperative give rise to a contradiction in the will? | The Brave New World-style utilitarian dystopia is a familiar feature of the cultural landscape; Kantian dystopias are harder to come by, perhaps because, until Rawls, Kantian morality presented itself as a primarily personal rather than political program. This asymmetry is peculiar for formal reas... | Categorical imperative; Dystopia; Self-refutation | 2003 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Some issues in Ortega y Gasset's critique of Heidegger's doctrine of Sein | The purpose of this paper is to propose a hypothesis to illuminate Ortega's critical response to Heidegger's question of being (Seinsfrage). While Ortega integrated the classical requirements for the idea of Being into his idea of human life as radical reality, Heidegger's delineation of human life... | | 1991 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of Nancy Sherman, "Making a Necessity of Virtue | Making a Necessity of Virtue is about the ethics of Aristotle and Kant. "Specifically," according to the first chapter, it "is about the role of emotions and practical reason in each theorist's account of virtue," though with "greater attention to the place of emotions in moral character". This desc... | Virtue; Ethics; Reason; Emotions; Morality | 2000 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of J. Moline, "Plato's theory of understanding | The Introduction to this book promises a " synoptic" (p. xi; cf. p. 183) account of Plato's concept (£moi;f]UT|), which Prof. Moline says is the "central integrating concept" of Plato's dialogues (p. ix). The term "synoptic" here appears to mean that the book treats and links problems in such ar... | Synoptic; Knowledge; Meaning | 1983 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Capitalization in the St. Petersburg Game: why statistical distributions matter | In spite of its infinite expectation value, the St. Petersburg game is not only a gamble without supply in the real world, but also one without demand at apparently very reasonable asking prices. We offer a rationalizing explanation of why the St. Petersburg bargain is unattractive on both sides (to... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Problem of natural law in Aristotle | In reading Aristotle's ethical, political, and jurisprudential writings we often come upon the term physis, which we may translate as "by the order of nature." In ancient political theory this term physis was often contrasted with nomos or "that which is by convention." I will argue in this paper t... | | 1978 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Legal physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands: evidence concerning the impact on patients in "vulnerable" groups | If physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and/or voluntary active euthanasia were legalised, would this disproportionately affect people in ‘‘vulnerable'' groups? Although principles of patient autonomy and the right to avoid suffering and pain may offer support for these practices, concerns about the... | Vulnerable groups; Oregon; Netherlands | 2007-10-01 |
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Benham, Bryan | Ryle and the para-mechanical | The thesis of this paper is the unconventional claim that Gilbert Ryle is not a logical behaviorist. The popular account of Ryle clearly places his work in The Concept of Mind (1949) in the camp of logical behaviorist.1 The object of this paper, however, will be to illustrate how the conventional in... | Behaviorist; Logical behaviorism | 2000 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Physician attitudes toward patients | An 8-year-old child with a minor head injury is brought in to the emergency department and is judged by the physician to be completely normal. The parents say that a sibling had a skull fracture under similar circumstances and that they would sleep much better if a skull x-ray were taken. The physic... | Society-inclusive ethic; Rationing; Worry | 1986 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Wit of knitting: a philosophical reflection on knitting things aright | Seeing a pattern in a medium of yarn emerge on a pair of needles, initially from a single row of loops, and grow to become an article of clothing, is immensely satisfying. Indeed, every moment of knitting provides immediate gratification. This is perhaps why knitting, like many other occupations of ... | | 2008 |
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Plutynski, Anya | Modeling evolution in theory and practice | This paper uses a number of examples of diverse types and functions of models in evolutionary biology to argue that the demarcation between theory and practice, or "theory model" and "data model." is often difficult to make. It is shown how both mathematical and laboratory models function as plausib... | Models; Theory; Data; Evolutionary biology | 2001 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Sex & consequences: world population growth vs. reproductive rights | Conflict between concern over global population growth (still rising precipitously, even though growth rates have slowed) and concern for reproductive rights is intense. NeoMalthusians, on the one hand, point to the dire consequences of overpopulation; feminist defenders of reproductive rights and ... | Reproduction; Population growth; Birth control; Feminism | 1997 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Telling confessions: confidentiality in the practice of religion | WHEN, if ever, may or should a professional practitioner reveal a confidential disclosure? This is a question of moral concern that arises in many areas of professional ethics. Those who have access to private information include many individuals, among them physicians, psychiatrists, attorneys, tea... | | 1983 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Voluntary euthanasia and the risks of abuse: can we learn anything from the Netherlands? | In the United Stares' quite volatile public debates over the legalization of voluntary active euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, much has been made of the risk of abuse. Indeed, it was probably tears of abuse that contributed more than any other single factor to the 1991 defeat of the Unite... | Slippery slope; Deliberations; Scruples | 1992 |
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Hanna, Patricia Lee | Summaries and comments on Lappin, S. Sorts, ontology and metaphor: the semantics of sortal structure | In this interesting study, Shalom Lappin argues that any adequate theory of sortal incorrectness must meet four requirements. First, it must account for the truth valuelessness of sortally incorrect sentences. Second, it must provide a means of distinguishing truth valuelessness arising from sortal... | Valuelessness; Incorrectness | 1983 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Violence, terrorism and justice (Book Review) | Reviews the book `Violence, Terrorism and Justice,' edited by R.G. Frey and Christopher W. Morris. | Books; Philosophy;; Terrorism; Justice; Violence | 1993-07 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | False dichotomy versus genuine choice the argument over physician-assisted dying | Despite a growing consensus that palliative care should be a core part of the treatment offered to all severely ill patients who potentially face death,1 challenging questions remain. How broad a choice should patients have in guiding the course of their own dying? What limitations should be placed ... | | 2004 |
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Francis, Leslie | Virtue and the American family: abortion and divorce in Western law by Mary Ann Glendon | Abortion and Divorce in Western Law is seductive and dangerous. It is seductive because it is half right; it is dangerous because it is half wrong on many levels: the data assembled about abortion law, the comparative law methodology employed, and the conclusions drawn for American public policy abo... | Abortion and divorce in American law; Book review; Glendon, Mary Ann | 1988 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | On the relationship between suicide-prevention and suicide-advocacy groups | Largely in response to contemporary medicine's advancing technological capacities to extend the process of dying to extraordinary lengths, recent years have seen the emergence of numerous advocacy groups concerned with what is often called "death with dignity." For instance, the New York-based group... | Suicide prevention; Suicide advocacy; Death with dignity; Suicidology | 1982 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Forms and sensibles: Phaedo 74B-C | In Phaedo 74b6-c6 Plato offers an important argument for the proposition that such things as "the equal itself," i.e. such things as are often called "Forms," are distinct from sensible objects. The argument is especially important because it is one of a very small number of explicit arguments-perha... | Plato; Forms; Sensibles | 1987 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of R. W. Sharples, 'Alexander of Aphrodisias on fate' | This is a book review of an English translation of Alexander of Aphrodisias' On Fate, written about 200 A.D. | Fate; Book review | 1985 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Nicole: suicide and terminal illness | The terminally ill person who plans suicide poses a clinical dilemma in suicidology. Issues of rational suicide are complicated. Although experts (Battin, 1991; Hoff, 1989; Motto, 1972; Pretzel, 1984; Saunders & Valente, 1988) recognize rational suicide, the prevailing paradigm of suicide preventio... | Terminal illness; Suicidology | 1993 |
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Andreou, Chrisoula | Getting on in a varied world | Are greed and ruthlessness contrary to reason? Is immorality a form of irrationality? Much of contemporary ethical theory is a debate between Kantians, who argue that the dictates of morality are dictates of reason, and Humeans, who argue that reason is neutral between morality and immorality. T... | Kantians; Humeans; Immorality | 2006 |
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Francis, Leslie | End of life decision-making for patients with dementia | In decision-making for patients with dementia, law and bioethics recognize two central goals: protecting the patient's autonomy and protecting the patient's best interests. These two objectives are not always consistent, however, nor easily applied over the long, downhill course experienced by mos... | | 2001 |