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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 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | On the structure of the euthanasia debate: observations provoked by a near-perfect for-and-against book. Review symposium on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide | Something is amiss with the euthanasia debate, and I want to use a smart new book to try to show what it is. The book is Euthanasia and Physician- Assisted Suicide: For and Against, an eagerly awaited volume by three well-known philosophers, Gerald Dworkin, R. G. Frey, and Sissela Bok. Dworkin a... | Physician assisted suicide; Killing and letting die; medical profession | 2000 |
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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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Parker, Bradley J. | Yukari dicle arkeolojik arastirma ppojesi (UTARP) kenan tepe 2000 yiki calismalari raporu | Bu rapor, Giineydogu Anadolu'da Diyarbakir ili iginde yer alan Kenan Tepe'nin ilk kazi mevsimi olan 2000 yih gali§malan hakkinda kisaca bilgi verme amacini ta§imaktadir. ilk kazi mevsiminin amaci yerle§menin kronolojisini, Kenan Tepe'de bulunan degi§ik donemlere ait yerle§melerin niteligi ve do... | | 2000-01-01 |
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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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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 |
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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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Nichols, Shaun | Normativity and epistemic intuitions | In this paper we propose to argue for two claims. The first is that a sizable group of epistemological projects -- a group which includes much of what has been done in epistemology in the analytic tradition -- would be seriously undermined if one or more of a cluster of empirical hypotheses about ep... | Epistemology; Intuition; Empirical hypotheses | 2001 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Berman, Marshall. Adventures in marxism | This book contains an introduction and thirteen short pieces previously published in such journals as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, New Politics, and Dissent, dating from 1963 to 1998. | Capitalism; Human; System | 2001 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Review of Susan Oyama, Ontogeny of information: developmental systems and evolution | Susan Oyama's book thoroughly deserved reprinting. This is an exciting and engaging work that is still timely 15 years after its initial publication. Some of the text of the new edition is revised, and Oyama has added a new Preface and an Afterword. The new Foreword by Richard Lewontin provides a s... | Information theory; Biology; Information gene concept; Morphological traits | 2001 |
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Parker, Bradley J. | Yukari dicle arkeolojik arastirma projesi (UTARP): kenan tepenin kulturel tarihinin on sentezi | Bu raporun amaci Guneydogu Tiirkiye'de, Ilisu Baraji bolgesinde onemli bir arkeolqjik yerle§me olan Kenan Tepe'nin kiiltiir tarihi hakkindaki bugiinkii bilgimizi ozetlemektir (§ekil 1). Bu sentezin biiyiik boliimii Yukan Dicle Arkeolojik Ara§tirma Projesi (UTARP) iiyelerinin 2001 yazinda yiiriitt... | | 2001-01-01 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Ontogeny of information: developmental systems and evolution (Book Review) | A review of the book "Ontogeny of information: developmental systems and evolution" by Susan Oyama. | Information theory, biology; Books; Developmental systems; Evolution | 2001-06-23 |
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Mallon, Ronald | Odd couple: the compatibility of social construction and evolutionary psychology | Examines the significance of evolutionary psychology and social constructionism in social sciences. Role of philosophical disputes in generating universal and local emotional phenomena; Relevance of adopting different theories of meaning and reference; Competition between philosophical disputes and ... | Emotions; Genetic psychology; Social Sciences, Philosophy | 2001-09-11 |
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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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Downes, Stephen M. | Can scientific development and children's cognitive development be the same process? | Assesses the value of the developmental psychology of science proposed by Alison Gopnik and Andrew Meltzoff to the understanding of scientific development. Role of distinctions between ontogeny and phylogeny when appealing to biology for theoretical support; Conception of cognition as a set of verid... | Cognition; Developmental psychology; Ontogeny; Phylogeny; Science, Philosophy | 2001-09-11 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Socializing naturalized Philosophy; of science | Presents an approach to naturalized Philosophy; of science that considers the nature of scientific practice. Cognitive individualism; Three-level model of the social nature of scientific practice. | Individualsim; Science, Philosophy | 2001-09-11 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Plato's Ethics (Book Review) | Reviews the book `Plato's Ethics,' by Terence Irwin. | Books; Plato; Ethics | 2001-09-16 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Textbook of healthcare ethics (Book Review) | Reviews the book `Textbook of Healthcare Ethics,' by Erich H. Loewy. | Books; Ethics; Healthcare | 2001-09-17 |
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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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White, Nicholas P. | Conflicting parts of happiness in Aristole's Ethics | Examines the concept of happiness based on Aristotle's view of ethics. Linkage between issues of ethics and altruism; Comparison between Kantian View and Hegelian View about the existence of a genuine dualism; Inclusivism as a common element in Aristotle's ethics; Conflicting parts of happiness. | Criticism; Happiness, moral & ethical aspects | 2001-09-17 |
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Kukathas, Chandran | Looking backward: a critical appraisal of communitarian thought (Book Review) | Reviews the book `Looking Backward: A Critical Appraisal of Communitarian Thought,' by Derek L. Phillips. | Books; Communitarianism; Philosophy | 2001-09-17 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Making a necessity of Virtue (Book Review) | Reviews the book `Making a Necessity of Virtue,' by Nancy Sherman. | Books; Philosophy;; Virtue | 2001-09-18 |
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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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Millgram, Elijah | Murdoch, practical reasoning, and particularism | Particularism is a contemporary movement in moral Philosophy; that it is hard to know what to do with. On the one hand, it's hard to dismiss. Its ranks include respectable - even prominent - authors such as Jonathan Dancy, Margaret Little, John McDowell, David McNaughton and Richard Norman.1 It purp... | | 2002 |
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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 |