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Nichols, Shaun | Do children think of the self as the soul? | Bering's work provides new insight into the child's concept of the self. For his results indicate that children don't regard bodily identity as required for identity of self across time. Bering's methodology for investigating afterlife beliefs might also be exploited to explore the extent to which c... | | 2006-10 |
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Goldberg, Robert A. | Esther Rosenblatt Landa: her price is far above rubies | Dr. Robert Goldberg has been a professor of history at the University of Utah since 1980. His teaching and research field is twentieth-century America with a focus on the American West, social, and political history. He has won five teaching awards and is the author of four books: Hooded Empire: Th... | Landa, Esther Rosenblatt | 1996 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Dreariness of aesthetics (continued), with a remedy | In 1951, J. A. Passmore shamelessly titled an essay "The Dreariness of Aesthetics." Drawing on John Wisdom's earlier complaints, he denounced aesthetics' dullness, its pretentiousness, and the fact that it was "peculiarly unilluminating." What Passmore had in mind were the vapid abstractions and m... | Aesthetics; Aestheticians; Art; Beauty | 1986 |
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Nichols, Shaun | Adaptive complexity and phenomenal consciousness | Focuses on epiphenomenalism problems in arguments about evolutionary function of phenomenal consciousness. Implications of cognitive neuropsychology evidence for the structure of phenomenal consciousness; Distinction of different kinds of epiphenominalist arguments; Provision of a developmental basi... | Cognitive neuroscience; Cognizant; Exceptional | 2001-09-11 |
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Francis, Leslie | Roles of the family in making health care decisions for incompetent patients | This article is about the roles of the family in making health care decisions for incompetent patients. It argues that complex moral reasons call for the participation of families in decision making for incompetents. However, these moral reasons do not support a single model of the family's role for... | Family; Health Care Decisions; Patients; Family Rights | 2006-06-16 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | From paradox to judgment: an essay on the metaphysics of expression | The Liar sentence is a singularly important piece of philosophical evidence. It is an instrument for investigating the metaphysics of expressing truths and falsehoods. And an instrument too for investigating the varieties of conflict that can give rise to paradox. It shall serve as perhaps the most ... | Liar sentence; Metaphysics; Paradox; Human Nature; Truth; Falsehood | 2005 |
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Millgram, Elijah | Aristotle on making other selves | There is still a relative paucity of discussion of the views on friendship that Aristotle presents in the Nicomachean Ethics, although some recent work may indicate a new trend. One suspects that this paucity reflects a belief that those views are not very interesting; if true, this witnesses to an ... | Virtue-friendship; Nicomachean Ethics; Non-instrumental friendship | 1987 |
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Haber, Matthew | Coherence, consistency, and cohesion: Clade selection in Okasha and beyond | Samir Okasha argues that clade selection is an incoherent concept, because the relation that constitutes clades is such that it renders parent-offspring (reproduction) relations between clades impossible. He reasons that since clades cannot reproduce, it is not coherent to speak of natural selection... | Biological classification; Cladistics; Taxonomy | 2005-12 |
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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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Landesman, Bruce M. | Confidentiality and the lawyer-client relationship | The Model Rules of Professional Conduct proposed by the American Bar Association differ from the presently enforced Code of Professional Responsibility in a number of ways. This essay focuses on the differences with regard to the scope and limits of confidentiality in the lawyer-client relationship. | Professional Conduct; Confidentiality; Professional Responsibility | 2006-06-16 |
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Morrow, Carolyn | Another aspect of the fénix: Lope as writer of autos | Hispanists have frequently lamented the loss of a large number of the comedias of Lope de Vega while, proportionately, there may be greater cause for regret in the case of his autos. Texts of only forty-odd of these are known today - a number quite different from the four hundred which Juan Pérez ... | | 1972 |
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Hanna, Patricia Lee | Moral dimensions of academic administration (Book Review) | Reviews the book `The Moral Dimensions of Academic Administration,' by Rudolph H. Weingartner. | Books, reviews; School management & organization; nonfiction | 2002-07 |
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Nichols, Shaun | Confabulation, confidence, and introspection | Carruthers' arguments depend on a tenuous interpretation of cases from the confabulation literature. Specifically, Carruthers maintains that cases of confabulation are "subjectively indistinguishable" from cases of alleged introspection. However, in typical cases of confabulation, the self-attributi... | Confabulation; Carruthers | 2009-04 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Disunity of science (book review) | Review of the book `The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power,' edited by Peter Galison and David J. Stump | Books; Science; Disunity | 2001-09-24 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | What are the potential cost savings from legalizing physician-assisted suicide? | Quill decisions rejecting a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Supreme Court allowed each state to decide whether to legalize the intervention. In state legislatures rather than courtrooms, factual claims about the probable extent and implications of permitting physician-assi... | Managed Care Programs; Cost of Illness; Home Care Services | 1998 |
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Crowe, Benjamin D. | Reasons for worship: a response to Bayne and Nagasawa | Worship is a topic that is rarely considered by philosophers of religion. In a recent paper, Tim Bayne and Yujin Nagasawa challenge this trend by offering an analysis of worship and by considering some difficulties attendant on the claim that worship is obligatory. I argue that their case for there... | Tim Bayne; Yujin Nagasawa; Obligatory worship; Divine command | 2007-12 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Some questions in R. G. Collingwood's theory of historical understanding | In this essay I would like to examine some problems that are suggested to me by R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy; of historical understanding. My method of examination will be as follows: (1) to show that Collingwood's struggle to maintain his thesis that "history is the re-thinking of past thoughts"... | History; Philosophy;; Collingwood, R. G. (Robin George), 1889-1943 | 1977 |
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Gehl, Robert W. | The politics of cultural programming in public spaces | In our digital media saturated lives, where we spend increasing amounts of time in "virtual worlds" such as Second Life or online on blogs and video sites, it can be easy to forget about public spaces. Unlike much content in virtual worlds, cultural programs in public spaces are events that are live... | | 2007 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Egalitarianism | Despite the popularity of equality as a political value, egalitarianism as a political theory has never, I think, been fully or successfully defended. I aim in this paper to begin the defense of such a view. The egalitarianism I have in mind has as its ideal a condition of equal wellbeing for all p... | Equality; Equal; Theory | 1983 |
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Gehl, Robert W. | The archive and the processor: the internal logic of web 2.0 | In Web 2.0, there is a social dichotomy at work based upon and reflecting the underlying Von Neumann architecture of computers. In the hegemonic Web 2.0 business model, users are encouraged to process digital ephemera by sharing content, making connections, ranking cultural artifacts, and producing ... | | 2011 |
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Crowe, Benjamin D. | F. H. Jacobi on faith, or what it takes to be an irrationalist | F. H. Jacobi (1743-1819), a key figure in the philosophical debates at the close of the eighteenth century in Germany, has long been regarded as an irrationalist for allegedly advocating a blind ‘leap of faith'. The central claim of this essay is that this venerable charge is misplaced. Following... | | 2009-09 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | A midwife through the dying process: stories of healing and hard choices at the end of life | In Timothy Quill's recounting of the deaths of nine patients, the final description is of the planned death of Jules: at home, surrounded by family members, and aided by a physician. It is a moving, true story, recounted in meticulous detail, from the first diagnosis to the final dose of barbiturat... | | 1997 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Rulers' choice | Plato undertook in the Republic to show that "it is in every way better to be just than unjust" (Book II, 357b1 -- 2). What did he mean by this? I would like to focus on two relevant questions. 1) Did he believe that invariably the more just a person is, the better it is for him? We should prefer t... | Republic; Plato; Justice | 1986 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Excellent palliative care as the standard, physician-assisted dying as a last resort | To understand the role of physician-assisted death as a last-resort option restricted to dying patients for whom palliative care or hospice has become ineffective or unacceptable, one must understand how frequently and under what circumstances that occurs. If all such cases are the result of inadequ... | | 2004 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Irony of supporting physician-assisted suicide: a personal account | Under other circumstances, I would have written an academic paper rehearsing the arguments for and against legalization of physician-assisted suicide: autonomy and the avoidance of pain and suffering on the pro side, the wrongness of killing, the integrity of the medical profession, and the risk of... | | 2010-08 |