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Battin, Margaret P. | Scott Ames: a man giving up on himself | The tragic story of Scott Ames raises a fundamental question concerning involuntary commitment of patients when suicide seems likely. What right has a physician ever to interfere when apatient proposes to take his own life? Under ordinary cirucmstances one argues that because of depression, or some ... | Suicide prevention; Scott Ames | 2003 |
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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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Battin, Margaret P. | Seven caveats concerning the discussion of euthanasia in Holland | As the discussion of voluntary active euthanasia heats up in the United States (indeed, I believe it will be the major social issue of the next decade, replacing abortion in that role), increasing attention is being given to its practice in the Netherlands. Proponents of the view that the United Sta... | | 1990 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Sex & consequences: world population growth vs. reproductive rights | Conflict between concern over global population growth (still rising precipitously, even though growth rates have slowed) and concern for reproductive rights is intense. NeoMalthusians, on the one hand, point to the dire consequences of overpopulation; feminist defenders of reproductive rights and ... | Reproduction; Population growth; Birth control; Feminism | 1997 |
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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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Loveland, Jessica | Sociolinguistic differences between Japanese and English | This poster discusses the sociolinguistic differences between Japanese and English as seen through English translations of manga and how this may impact the learning of a Japanese language learner. | Japanese; English; Sociolinguistics; Manga; Culture; Pop culture | 2015-03-19 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Some issues in Ortega y Gasset's critique of Heidegger's doctrine of Sein | The purpose of this paper is to propose a hypothesis to illuminate Ortega's critical response to Heidegger's question of being (Seinsfrage). While Ortega integrated the classical requirements for the idea of Being into his idea of human life as radical reality, Heidegger's delineation of human life... | | 1991 |
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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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White, Nicholas P. | Stoic values | RM: Copyright © 1990, The Monist: An International Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry, Peru, Illinois, U.S.A., 61354, reproduced by permission. Discusses the values of Stoicism which say noting concrete about how a virtuous person should go about making choices and examines the Stoics im... | Virtuous; Indifferent; Worth | 1990 |
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Plutynski, Anya | Strategies of model building in population genetics | In 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building in population biology. In this paper, I reply to Orzack and Sober's (1993) critiques of Levins and argue that his view on modeling strategies apply also in the context of evolutionary genetics. In particular, I arg... | | 2006 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Suicide and ethical theory | Except in the present century, suicide has been viewed throughout Western history as an act having ethical significance, one for which moral blame or praise was a proper response. Response, of course, varied with the times. During the Stoic era of Greece and Rome, suicide was praised as the morall... | Ethical theory | 1983 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Suicidology and the right to die | As suicidology reflects on the issue of the right to die, it can make no bigger mistake than by seeing suicide and suicidal behavior in short-sighted isolation, without reference to the cultural context within which it occurs. Two kinds of myopia currently afflict us in particularly constricting way... | | 1993 |
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Hanna, Patricia Lee | Summaries and comments on Lappin, S. Sorts, ontology and metaphor: the semantics of sortal structure | In this interesting study, Shalom Lappin argues that any adequate theory of sortal incorrectness must meet four requirements. First, it must account for the truth valuelessness of sortally incorrect sentences. Second, it must provide a means of distinguishing truth valuelessness arising from sortal... | Valuelessness; Incorrectness | 1983 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Systems | Dynamical-systems analysis is nowadays ubiquitous. From engineering (its point of origin and natural home) to physiology, and from psychology to ecology, it enjoys surprisingly wide application. Sometimes the analysis rings decisively false-as, for example, when adopted in certain treatments of hist... | | 2009 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Telling confessions: confidentiality in the practice of religion | WHEN, if ever, may or should a professional practitioner reveal a confidential disclosure? This is a question of moral concern that arises in many areas of professional ethics. Those who have access to private information include many individuals, among them physicians, psychiatrists, attorneys, tea... | | 1983 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Terminal sedation: pulling the sheet over our eyes | Terminal sedation-also called "palliative sedation," "continuous deep sedation," or "primary deep continuous sedation"-has become a new favorite in end-of-life care, a seeming compromise in the debate over physician-assisted dying. Like all compromises, it offers something to each side of a dispu... | Terminal sedation; Palliative sedation | 2008 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Textbook of healthcare ethics | Loewy's Textbook of Healthcare Ethics is one of the very few books that is better than its title. It is a textbook; it does address ethics; and it does survey a broad range of issues in health care. Of course it includes the usual theoretical rubrics like autonomy and responsibility, physician/patie... | | 1988 |
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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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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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Parker, Bradley J. | The early second millennium ceramic assemblage from Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Turkey: a preliminary assessment | In the initial survey of the upper Tigris river valley the authors o f the survey report concluded that ‘either this portion o f the Tigris basin was bypassed entirely by Middle Bronze Age development attested to elsewhere or, more likely, it is characterised by a thus far unreported and unrecogni... | | 2003-01-01 |
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Hayes-Harb, Rachel | The influence of the Pinyin and Zhuyin writing systems on the acquisition of Mandarin word forms by native English speakers | The role of written input in second language (L2) phonological and lexical acquisition has received increased attention in recent years. Here we investigated the influence of two factors that may moderate the influence of orthography on L2 word form learning: (i) whether the writing system is shared... | Second language acquisition(SLA); Mandarin; Pinyin; Zhuyin; Orthographic input; Second language phonology; Second language word learning | 2016-03-06 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | The lens of chemistry | Chemistry possesses a distinctive theoretical lens?a distinctive set of theoretical concerns regarding the dynamics and transformations of a perplexing variety of organic and nonorganic substances?to which it must be faithful. Even if it is true that chemical facts bear a special (reductive) relati... | | 2012 |
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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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Parker, Bradley J. | The upper Tigris archaeological research project: a final report from the 1999 field season | During the summer of 1999 members of the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP) conducted archaeological excavations and surveys at two sites in the upper Tigris river region of southeastern Turkey. This article presents the results of that research. At the site of Boztepe excavations ... | | 2002-01-01 |
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Millgram, Elijah | Thick ethical concepts and the fact-value distinction | Over the last few years, the ‘fact-value distinction' (FVD) has become increasingly unfashionable, due in part to a number of arguments adduced against it. I myself do not believe the FVD can be maintained, and I think there are good arguments against it. But I have my doubts about the cogency of... | Philosophy;; Ethics | 1995 |