Nineteenth-century physiologist Johannes Müller, for example, argued for vitalism and defended the notion that the activity of the nervous system would never be reducible to physical facts. In Chapter 2 of my book, I describe Müller’s influential views and detail …
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Sri Sridhara Pandita
Sridhara Pandit was a resident of Navadwip. He used to live at the northern extremity of Mayapur and to the southeast of the Chand Kazi’s Samadhi, in the place which is now known as Sridhara Angan. -Qouted in Srimad Bhagavatam …
Writing The Misinformation Age
Still, we have found that some agents (including ours) recognize that a strong academic reputation is an asset for authors when they approach trade editors, and are willing to work with academics to find an appropriate balance. Trade authors often …
Let Go of Your Expertise to Tell a Better Story
I’d learnt this and other tricks through a few years of writing wide-ranging essays on neuroscience for my publication The Spike: often I’d write about cool new work that was at the very fringes of my expertise – like breakthroughs …
Cancelling Books
So bearing the facts about publishing in mind helps to rebut one common argument against cancellation: it doesn’t suppress ideas. It changes who publishes them, not whether they are published. But the facts about publishing also helps rebut a different …
Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi – 21 June, 2021
Narration from the Brahma-Vaivarta Purana Jyeshtha Shukla Ekadashi Vyasadeva replied, “You should fast without drinking even water on the Ekadashi that occurs during the light fortnight of the month of Jyeshtha (May-June) at the time of Mithuna Sankranti when the …
Mandatory Vaccination for Care Workers: Pro and Con
Mandating vaccination can be ethical if it is both necessary and proportionate. A mandate is not necessary if there are less intrusive means of effectively increasing uptake, such as persuasion and incentives. The problem is that less intrusive means may …
No jab, no job? Vaccination requirements for care home staff
As we have discussed in other written evidence submissions on mandatory vaccination and on Covid-19 vaccination certification, vaccination requirements can be ethically permissible and compliant with human rights law. While vaccination requirements would likely interfere with individuals’ rights to private …
Care home staff vaccination – press release
Prof Dominic Wilkinson & Dr Jonathan Pugh “That is a tragic and distressing situation that we must do everything possible to avoid repeating. First, we should ensure that all those who are high risk have access to vaccination. There are …
Post-Normal Challenges of Covid
In this article we argue that, In any pandemic response, the measures undertaken by authorities must effective in the sense of actually addressing the viral threats. A strategy that didn’t slow the rate of viral spread, for instance, wouldn’t work …