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Haber, Matthew | Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: a philosophical study of biological taxonomy (book review) | The article reviews the book "The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy," by Marc Ereshefsky. | Biology, classification; Books, reviews; Nonficiton | 2005-12-15 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Aristotle on sameness and oneness | Before I begin, let me get one substantial issue out of the way. Recently certain views which are in many ways similar to Aristotle's have been expounded in connection with the idea that there is something wrong with the words "same" and "identical" used by themselves, and that we should instead mak... | Leibniz' Law; Metaphysics; Greek philosophers | 1971-04 |
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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 |
104 |
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Chatterjee, Deen | Democracy beyond borders: justice and representation in global institutions | A book review of Andrew Kuper's Democracy Beyond Borders: Justice and Representation in Global Institutions. | Book review; Democracy; Global governance | 2006-04 |
105 |
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Nichols, Shaun | Explicit factuality and comparative evidence. | We argue that Dienes & Perner's (D&P's) proposal needs to specify independent criteria when a subject explicitly represents factuality. This task is complicated by the fact that people typically "tacitly" believe that each of their beliefs is a fact. This problem does not arise for comparative evide... | Philosophy;; Factuality; Dienes & Perner's Proposal | 1999-12-16 |
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Nichols, Shaun | Mind's "I" and the theory of mind's "I": introspection and two concepts of self | Introspection plays a crucial role in modern Philosophy; in two different ways. From the beginnings of modern Philosophy;, introspection has been used as a tool for philosophical exploration in a variety of thought experiments. But modern philosophers (e.g., Locke and Hume) also tried to characteri... | Introspection; Self; Self-awareness; Cognition | 2000 |
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Morrow, Carolyn | La generación X en España: "Historias del Kronen" y "Noches de San Juan | El filósofo de la posmodernidad Gianni Vattimo propone que en la sociedad de los medios de comunicación se abre camino un ideal de emancipación que tiene en su base la pluralidad y la erosión del antiguo "principio de la realidad". Desaparecida la idea de una racionalidad central de la historia,... | Young adults, Spain; Generation X, Spain; Culture, Spain; Literature, Spain; Postmodernity | 2006-07-19 |
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Newman, Lex | Unmasking Descartes's case for the bete machine doctrine | Among the more notorious of Cartesian doctrines is the bete machine doctrine -- the view that brute animals lack not only reason, but any form of consciousness (having no mind or soul). Recent English commentaries have served to obscure, rather than to clarify, the historical Descartes's views, Stan... | Animals; Intelligence; Soul; Mechanical causation | 2001 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Death ethics: religious and cultural values in prolonging and ending life (book review) | A review of the book "Death Ethics: Religious and Cultural Values in Prolonging and Ending Life" by Kenneth L. Vaux. | Books; Life; End of life | 1994-07 |
110 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Ethical Marxism and its radical critics (book review) | Reviews the book `Ethical Marxism and Its Radical Critics,' by Lawrence Wilde. | Books; Marxism; Philosophy | 2000-01 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of M. Schofield and G. Striker, eds., 'The Norms of Nature' | This is a review of of The Norms of Nature: Studies in Hellenistic Ethics, edited by Malcom Schofield and Gisela Striker. The book contains nine studies on Epicurean, Stoic, and Skeptic views on value and ethics. | Book review; Values; Epicureans (Greek Philosophy;); Stoics; Philosophy;, Ancient | 1990 |
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Gehl, Robert W. | Building a blog cabin during a financial crisis: circuits of struggle in the digital enclosure | One of the most pressing questions facing television studies is how to understand the migration of media production and consumption onto web applications which depend on user-generated content. Scholars inspired by the political economy of communication (PEC) tradition have focused on how the accumu... | | 2011 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Seven (more) caveats concerning the discussion of euthanasia in the Netherlands | Discussion in the U.S. about euthanasia in the Netherlands is characterized by profound disagreement, both about what the practice actually is and what risks it involves. Some time ago, I put together a little list1 of seven warnings for bioethicists embroiled in this discussion-things one ought to... | | 1993 |
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Francis, Leslie | Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York City: easy taking-clause cases make uncertain Law. | In Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York City, the Supreme Court held that New York City's Landmarks Preservation Law as applied to Grand Central Terminal was not a "taking" of property for which compensation is constitutionally required. The decision has been hailed as a major victory for... | Law; Compensation; Property Rights; Landmarks Preservation Law; Supreme Court Rulings | 2006-06-16 |
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Hanna, Patricia Lee | Having children: philosophical and legal reflections on parenthood (Book Review) | A review of the book "Having Children: Philosophical and Legal Reflections on Parenthood". | Books, reviews; Parenthood; Philosophy; Law | 1981-07 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Margalit, Avishai. The decent society | The title of this book will surely pique the interest of political philosophers who have spent much time and energy in recent decades trying to capture the idea of justice. Margalit believes that in the quest for justice, decency has been overlooked. A decent society may or may not be a step to a ju... | Humiliate; Respect; Justice | 1997 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Review of Peter Galison and David Stump, Disunity of science | Most of the essays in this collection were originally delivered as papers at a conference on the disunity of science held at Stanford University in 1991. | Ampere; Scientific work, Science in French society | 1997 |
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Millgram, Elijah | John Stuart Mill's Deliberative landscape (Book Review) | A review of the book "John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape." by Candace Vogler. | John Stuart Mill; Books | 2002-08 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Coping with methuselah the impact of molecular biology on medicine and society | The prospect of extra-long life spawns a bloom of ethical issues, among them how to achieve intergenerational equity; how to balance health care entitlements with rising costs for the elderly; how to divide years of life between work and retirement; how to assign the responsibilities of young family... | | 2004 |
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Mallon, Ronald | 'Race': normative, not metaphysical or semantic | In recent years, there has been a flurry of work on the metaphysics of race. While it is now widely accepted that races do not share robust, biobehavioral essences, opinions differ over what, if anything, race is. Recent work has been divided between three apparently quite different answers. A varie... | | 2006 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Review of angels of death: exploring the euthanasia underground | Roger Magnusson's angels of death describes the practice of extralegal assisted suicide and euthanasia by physicians, nurses, technicians, and other health care professionals who provide care to seriously ill patients and patients with AIDS who are dying. It is based on a snowball sample of 49 detai... | | 2003 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Health care in a national health program: a fundamental right | Do or should Americans have a right to health care or some appropriate level of it? To explore this difficult and complex question, we must say something about rights and ways to justify them; about considerations which favor a right to health care; about what level and kind of care the right may in... | Health care; Rights; Americans | 1992 |
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Crowe, Benjamin D. | On the track of the fugitive Gods: Heidegger, Luther, Holderlin | At each of the decisive turning points in his philosophical career, Heidegger found inspiration in Holderlin. More recently, commentators have raised questions about the role that his reading of Holderlin played in Heidegger's political actions of the 1930s. It has been suggested that Heidegger's... | Philosophy;; Theology; Religion; Nationalism | 2007 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Applied professional ethics and institutional religion: the methodological issues | In the last several years, philosophical enthusiasm for applied professional ethics has spread from medicine to law, education, government, engineering, business, and to other professional and semiprofessional fields. Each involves an institutional structure within which professional practitioners p... | Professional ethics; Religion; Applied ethics | 1984 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Review of Jarrett Leplin, Novel Defense of Scientific Realism | Many historians of science may hope that philosophers will one day stop arguing about scientific realism and come and join in the hard business of achieving a historically informed understanding of science. But Jarrett Leplin's book guarantees that there will be more arguing about scientific realism... | Concept of novelty; Uniqueness; Logical relations | 1999 |