Muhammad Ali Khalidi’s book Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences offers a compelling non-reductionist approach to understanding the furniture of the mind: the ‘real kinds’ of cognitive science. This book is a thoughtful and timely addition to current debates over the ontology of the mind-brain sciences. In these …
Similar Posts
The End Of The Egg?
written by Neil Levy The unavailability of free range eggs should make you rethink your egg buying, if you’re one of the people who prefer them to barn laid. You’re eating eggs from chickens that can be expected to have…
Cross Post: Vaccine passports: why they are good for society
If you are walking past a shallow pond and see a child drowning in it, you ought to wade in and pull the child out. This will mean getting your clothes muddy, but this is insignificant, while the death of…
Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: When Money Can’t Buy Happiness: Does Our Duty to Assist the Needy Require Us to Befriend the Lonely?
These conditions are clarified and justified with an example. Let us consider the specific duty to call an ambulance in three scenarios: [2] Very wealthy people might potentially feel that paying actors would be worth it. While this is an…
Cognitive Science of Philosophy Symposium: Moral Dilemmas
Greene, J. D., Sommerville, R. B., Nystrom, L. E., Darley, J. M., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment. Science, 293, 2105–2108. Nguyen, T. D., Lyall, G., Tran, A., Shin. M., Carroll, N….
Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why Don’t We Just Let The Wise Rule?!
7 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/07/the-case-against-democracy (Accessed:22/01/2022); https:// www.ipsos.com/en-uk/perceptions-are-not-reality (Accessed: 22/01/2022) First, ‘The Value of Wisdom’. Generally, it is reasonable to expect that wisdom is positively correlated with a tendency to produce better outcomes. For example, the legally wise lawyer will tend to produce…
NHS and Care Home Mandates Should Take Account of Natural Immunity to COVID
One striking feature of the current UK care home and NHS staff mandate is that it does not allow an exemption for those who have proof of natural immunity. There is now evidence to suggest that natural immunity confers comparable…