Hume, who founded classical economics, identified important problems and posed them in interesting forms. However, he made shameful judgments; he held racist views. Individuals are complex. So is history. The Enlightenment in its mainstream form, personified by Hume, was wrong…
As well as direct benefit, vaccines have an important indirect benefit: they reduce the spread of the virus and stop other people from being infected. If you can help others in a significant way, at little personal cost, risk or…
Please direct all queries to John Bickle at the email address given above, or to Brian Keeley at brian_keeley@pitzer.edu Note on current plans for workshop format: At present our plans are to hold as much of the workshop live in…
Most people with phobias will still retain capacity to make decisions. Decisions that have nothing to do with their phobia will obviously be unaffected. But many people with a phobia can still make decisions affected by their phobia. For example,…
Moreover, it is this understanding of Stoicism that led us to tell the stories of the British spy Katherine Gun and the civil rights defender Claudette Colvin. For us, they were Stoic in everything but name. They chose to stand…
The following narration of Apara Ekadashi is found in the Brahmanda Purana. King Yudhisthira inquired from Lord Krishna about this most auspicious of Ekadashis. Yudhishthira Maharaj said, “O Janardana, what is the name of the Ekadashi that occurs during the…
It’s no smooth-purring comedy machine. Sometimes Newman’s arcane historical act-outs frustrate, by interrupting the flow of his argument. Occasionally, the ideas they depict are funnier in concept than execution. But there are laughs and killer punchlines, such as the priceless…
Human dignity and the creation of human–nonhuman chimeras. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 18, no. 4 (2015): 487-499. [Palacios-González, César] Further Research: Dr César Palacios-González, Senior Research Fellow in Practical Ethics, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford “The new ISSCR…
“The community expects us to meet/respond to their needs and we cannot do that. […] They need water, they need housing, roads, education […], and they expect this from us. This makes things difficult […] we always have to explain…
How can we correct for this? One way is to make our evidence more representative of what’s going on in the world – de-bias our sample. This probably means avoiding social media sites altogether, or at least editing those we…
Abstract. Mental terms—such as perception, cognition, action, emotion, as well as attention, memory, decision making—are epistemically sterile. We support our thesis based on extensive comparative neuroanatomy knowledge of the organization of the vertebrate brain. Evolutionary pressures have molded the central…
Lessons for Devotees and Non-Devotees When Lord Brahma reached the Valley of Mandarachala Mountain, Hiranyakahipu was not to be seen. Without fat, flesh and blood he was buried in an anthill; his life air circulating in his bones. Lord Brahma expressed amazement…
(b) when doing the act, D reasonably believes— If there is no way of knowing on a systemic level whether the Mental Capacity Act is being flouted by the Supreme Court’s implicit guidance being ignored, it seems arguable that the…
The closing conference is the finale of a 3-week program designed to advance interdisciplinary work at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. You can learn more about the program by visiting https://ssnap.net. We are excited to share information about the…
