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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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Battin, Margaret P. | Continuous sedation until death: moral justifications of physicians and nurses─a content analysis of opinion pieces | Continuous Sedation until Death (CSD), the act of reducing or removing the consciousness of an incurably ill patient until death, often provokes medical-ethical discussions in the opinion sections of medical and nursing journals. A content analysis of opinion pieces in medical and nursing literature... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Parker, Bradley J. | Archaeological manifestations of empire: Assyrias imprint on Southeastern Anatolia | One of the most enduring problems for the study of ancient empires is the fact that material correlates indicative of imperial integration are often difficult to define in the archaeological record. This situation results in part from two factors that distinguish empires from other less complex poli... | | 2003-01-01 |
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Andrus, Jennifer | Critical discourse analysis and rhetoric and composition | Over the past two decades, critical discourse analysis has emerged as a major new multidisciplinary approach to the study of texts and contexts in the public sphere. Developed in Europe, CDA has lately become increasingly popular in North America, where it is proving especially congenial to new dire... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Francis, Leslie | Creation Ethics and the harms of existence | David DeGrazia's Creation Ethics1 is a fascinating effort to present a consistent account of creation in many contexts-from reproduction, to self-creation through genetic enhancement, to the creation of entire future generations. For reasons of space, this comment addresses the related discussions o... | | 2014-01-01 |
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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 |
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Mallon, Ronald | Political liberalism, cultural membership and the family | In a recent article on developments in John Rawls's theory of justice, S.A. Lloyd notes a problem in Rawls's treatment of the family. In Political Liberalism (hereafter PL), Rawls concedes that his theory assumes that "in some form the family is just." And Lloyd takes this to mean that the principle... | Theory of justice; Equality; Upbringing | 1999 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Death ethics: religious and cultural values in prolonging and ending life | In this sequel to his earlier Birth Ethics, Kenneth Vaux again uses what he calls a 'multiphasic ethical scheme," incorporating naturalistic, humanistic, and theistic values to explore the issues of suicide, euthanasia, letting die, genocide, withdrawing life supports, and other end-of-life issues. | | 1994 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of Suzanne Mansion, 'Etudes Aristoteliciennes: receuils d'articles | This volume is a posthumous collection of articles, all previously published and almost all on Aristotle, by Suzanne Mansion, along with a list of her scholarly works (xviiixxi). The articles printed here are reproduced photographically along with their original pagination, and a continuous paginati... | Aristotle; Plato; Ancient Philosophy | 1988 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of Mary Margaret McCabe, "Plato's individuals | This book is an exploration of themes in Plato's metaphysics and epistemology from the Meno through his latest works. McCabe argues that Plato was interested, with increasing explicitness over his lifetime, in questions concerning what it is to be an individual. This interest led him, she maintains,... | Individuality; Identity; Unity | 1997 |