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Millgram, Elijah | Book review: Candace Vogler's, John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape | This is a review of Candace Vogler's John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape. Vogler's explores Mill's mental breakdown and its effect on his Philosophy;. In addition, Vogler's treatment is an intervention in the contemporary debate about practical reasoning. Both in its impressive control of t... | Book review; Determinism; Moral Philosophy | 2002 |
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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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Battin, Margaret P. | Case comment: the case of Nicole: suicide and terminal illness | What shall one say about Nicole? My immediate answer is an easy one-liner: if there ever were a case in which a choice of suicide appears both rational and rationally made, this seems to be it. | | 1933 |
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Hanna, Patricia Lee | Equal rights for children (book review) | A review of the book "Equal Rights for Children" by Howard Cohen. | Books, reviews; Equal rights; Children | 1982-04 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Units of decision | I shall introduce the units of decision problem in the theory of decision, which as I shall explain is a sibling to the units of selection problem in evolutionary theory. And I shall present an argument to the effect that, contrary to Bayesian wisdom on the subject, undertaking decision in group set... | Decision theory; Collective will; Cooperation; Individualism | 1999-09 |
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Kachi, Yukio | Review article on A.C. Graham, Reason and Spontaneity | This is a book review of A. C. Graham's Reason and Spontaneity, a book that advances the proposal to ground all values, whether prudential, moral, or aesthetic, in the imperative 'Be aware'. The empirical thesis concerns causal connections between awareness and motivation. | Book review; Values; Metaphysics | 1990 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Review of euthanasia and law in Europe | Euthanasia and Law in Europe is an examination of physician-assisted dying or physician performed euthanasia and the laws concerning these practices in European jurisdictions where the issue has been most visible. The Author's focus primarily on the Netherlands, where the practice has been open si... | | 2009 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Report of the committee on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia | In 1994 the Board of the American Association of Suicidology selected a Committee on Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. It was asked to review the issues emerging in the growing controversy concerning euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, palliative care, and the medical treatment of dyin... | Suicidology; Palliative care | 1996 |
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Francis, Leslie | Competitive sports, disability, and problems of justice in sports | A "level playing field" is a stock metaphor for equality. Despite its status as a near-cliché, however, the metaphor has been given limited theoretical attention. Deliberately tilting the field so that one set of contestants must consistently run uphill while their opponents get a downhill ride is... | Level playing field; Competitive sports | 2005 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Euthanasia in alzheimer's disease? | Ought euthanasia be practiced for persons with advanced dementia? Although the issue of euthanasia is a topic of increasingly heated social debate, already tending to polarize those who support it as voluntary "aid-in-dying" and those who reject it as medical "killing," what is said about active eut... | | 1933 |
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Millgram, Elijah | Mill's proof of the principle of utility | Mill's utilitarianism is very closely tied to his instrumentalism; that his argument for the Principle of Utility, while tight, is deeply incoherent; that the incoherence stems from an incoherence in instrumentalism; and that Mill's instrumentalism turns out to have been an island of apriorism in ... | Utility; Happiness; Rationalism | 2000 |
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Haber, Matthew | On probability and systematics: possibility, probability, and phylogenetic inference | In phylogenetic systematics, an ongoing debate has revolved around the appropriate choice of methodology for the construction of phylogenetic trees and inference of ancestral states. A recent paper by Mark Siddall and Arnold Kluge (Siddall and Kluge, 1997) advocates a privileged status for parsimon... | Phylogentic systematics; Probability; Possibility; Frequency; Propensity | 2005-10-01 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of Jan Szaif: Platons Begriff der Wahrheit | This work, a dissertation, contains two main parts. One occupies pp. 25-324, the other pp. 327-509. A brief passage, pp. 510-531, connects them. The first part treats the uses of alethes and cognates in Plato's early and middle works; the second mainly deals with the problems in the Theaetetus and ... | | 1999 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Comment on Professor Jordan's paper | In these remarks I would like to elaborate what I understand to be the thrust of Professor Jordan's paper, and to introduce and relate to his work a notion of lived experience, which is suggested to me by his material throughout. Professor Jordan claims that the phenomena investigated by the moral ... | Moral science; Moral scientists; Professor Jordan | 1976 |
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Nichols, Shaun | On the genealogy of norms: a case for the role of emotion in cultural evolution | Argues that emotional responses constitute one important set of mechanisms that affects the cultural viability of norms. Historical evidence indicating that 16th century etiquette norms prohibiting disgusting actions were much more likely to survive than other 16th century etiquette norms; Need for ... | Emotions; Etiquette; Social change; Social norms; Social aspects | 2002-07-29 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Dying in 559 beds: efficiency, "best buys," and the ethics of standardization in national health care | In The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, the "heavy, difficult book" begun in Rome during the winter of 1903-4 and not finished until 1910 in Paris, Rilke employs a series of rapid, jolting impressions to express his pervasive concern with death and his distress about the institutional character o... | | 1992 |
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Millgram, Elijah | Liberty, the higher pleasures, and Mill's missing science of ethnic jokes | The intended contribution to his moral theory of John Stuart Mill's famous distinction between higher and lower pleasures has occasioned long-standing puzzlement on the part of his more alert interpreters. I am going to explain how the distinction was meant, among other things, to allow Mill to demo... | Higher pleasures; Lower pleasures; Ethnic jokes | 2009 |
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Stark, Cynthia A. | Is pornography an action?: the causal vs. the conceptual view of pornography's harm | In the past few decades, a new position concerning the legal regulation of sexually explicit materials has emerged, disrupting the traditional polarity between conservatives (who generally support regulation) and liberals (who generally oppose regulation). This new position is an avowedly feminist v... | | 1997 |
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Francis, Leslie | Law and Philosophy;: from skepticism to value theory | To write about Philosophy; and law is both odd and daunting. It is odd because the topic seems to presuppose that the two fields are separate and that Philosophy; may be unfamiliar to legal practice and legal practitioners. Yet, recognized or not, Philosophy; is part of the ordinary life of law sch... | | 1993 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Importance of models in theorizing: a deflationary semantic view | It is commonly acknowledged in science that model construction is one of the most important components of theorizing. Philosophers of science are gradually coming to acknowledge this situation, spurred on by holders of the semantic view of theories. In this paper I wish to defend a very deflationary... | Theories; Mathematical; Scientific | 1992 |
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Kukathas, Chandran | History of political theory and other essays (Book Review) | Reviews the book `The History of Political Theory and Other Essays,' by John Dunn. | Books; Political Theory | 2001-09-17 |
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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 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Review of Kim Sterelny, Evolution of Agency and Other Essays | Reviews the book 'The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays,' by Kim Sterelny. | Books; Agent; Non-fiction | 2002-09 |
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Kukathas, Chandran | Cultural contradictions of socialism | While no one has yet announced the death of capitalism, reports of its imminent demise have been as numerous as they have been exaggerated. Such reports have usually been bolstered by thoughtful analyses of the fundamental contradictions of capitalism, which was expected to come sliding-if not crash... | Economic systems; Social organization | 2002-11-22 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Ethical Marxism and its radical critics | Wilde defends what he calls Ethical Marxism. This is a familiar view, which many refer to as Marxist Humanism. According to Wilde, Marx holds that there is a human essence which involves freedom and the development of each individual's creative potential. This is achievable, however, only under cond... | Marxism; Book review | 2000 |