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Composition, Realization, and Constitutive Explanation: An Ontologically Egalitarian Account of Multilevel Mechanisms

Contributor March 1, 2021

(Note for connoisseurs: I consider this “aspect view” of realization an improvement over the “subset view,” although they share many virtues. As far as I know, the subset view is due primarily to Jessica Wilson.) It also explains why higher-level …

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Nikolaus Kriegeskorte will livestream “Peeling the Onion of Brain Representations” on March 5

Contributor February 26, 2021

We are excited about the next Neural Mechanisms webinar this Friday. As always, it is free. You can find information about how and when to join the webinar below or at the Neural Mechanisms website—where you can also join sign …

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Cross-Post: Self-experimentation with vaccines

Contributor February 24, 2021

The success of such regulatory efforts will depend on developing a relationship of trust between citizen scientists and regulators. In order to gain the trust of citizen scientists it is crucial that regulators clearly communicate why the important moral justifications …

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Nityananda Jayanti: Glories of Lord Nityananda

Contributor February 24, 2021

Sankirtana Movement Begins Lord Balarama He waded through the gathered crowd and humbly requested Jagai and Madhai to give up their wicked ways and chant Hare Krishna. The two brothers became furious and Madhai threw a piece of a broken …

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An Ethical Review of Hotel Quarantine Policies For International Arrivals

Contributor February 23, 2021

It should be noted that these conditions can conflict, necessitating trade-offs. In particular, more effective interventions for achieving a public health goals will often involve more significant restrictions of individual liberty. For this reason, some frameworks eschew reference to the …

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Announcement: Finalists of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation

Contributor February 23, 2021

All are welcome to attend this public even: The following essays have been awarded an Honourable Mention: Oshmita Ray: May the use of violent civil disobedience be justified as a response to institutional racism? Undergraduate Finalists Graduate Finalists Imogen Rivers: …

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Priority Vaccination for Prison and Homeless Populations

Contributor February 23, 2021

Consider now the more specific factors attaching to each group. Individuals who are homeless are also particularly vulnerable to being missed even if they qualify under existing criteria, such as severe underlying illness, since many are not registered with a …

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Commentary by Jonathan Gilmore on Explaining Imagination

Contributor February 18, 2021

This leads to a second means of defense.  Even when we are deeply immersed in a fiction, we do not usually respond to the fiction just as we would were the events non-fictional.  Jonathan’s own careful arguments to this effect …

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Commentary by Alon Chasid on Explaining Imagination (with reply)

Contributor February 17, 2021

Alon’s first set of questions concerns what he calls “spontaneous imaginative projects.”  Intuitively, these are imaginings that seem to just pop into our heads from out of nowhere and to bear little if any bearing on what we are doing …

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Imagination Between Bats and Cats: Commentary by Margherita Arcangeli on Explaining Imagination (with reply)

Contributor February 16, 2021

Strangely it might seem, I agree with Peter. In my own taxonomy (see Arcangeli 2018 and 2020) I have identified two different classes of mental phenomena, which (misleadingly, I think) are lumped together under the umbrella “imagination”: imagination as a …

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