Suppose that it was possible to obtain a measure of academic performance perfectly controlled for any differences in educational opportunities beyond the applicant’s control. In this case, it seems that test scores would track some combination of hard work, innate…
Accordingly, it is important to place the reported thrombotic events into context, and to think about how many thrombotic events we might normally expect in a population of a comparable size to the population that has received the Astra Zeneca…
19 March 202115-17 Greenwhich Mean Time(Convert to your local time here) There Are No Object Files Abstract. Object files are representations that sustain reference to external objects and keep track of the properties of these objects. Object files are posited…
So how concerned should we be about these cases? Sabrina Bracher/Shutterstock To use a trivial example, if there are 100 seats in a cinema and you jump a queue of 100, someone who has waited will not get a seat….
[6] Sartorio 2004: 331 Kaiserman, A., forthcoming—a, “Against Accomplice Liability”, forthcoming in Gardner, J., Green, L., and Leiter, B. (eds.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 4, Oxford OUP Causal Dependence (Counterfactual Dependence): e depends causally on c iff…
A man was found to have Huntingdon’s disease (HD). That meant that his children might be affected. He refused to allow his clinicians to notify his daughter (who was pregnant) of the possibility that she might have HD, or be…
Abstract: Recent advances in whole-brain modelling have helped stratify the heterogeneity of anhedonia across neuropsychiatric disorders, and the key underlying components of the pleasure network. I will show how modelling of neuroimaging data from diverse hedonic routes such as psychedelics,…
Wrapping up: the experience of Neural Mechanisms Online is suggestive that long-term online events can provide a scaffold for community-building. And they can do so with relatively low costs. Limitations Of Online Events? Webinars are our most popular format. Our recipe is…
Written by Ed Lamb, St. Anne’s College This brings us onto the second difference, which is an epistemic one. Many of our objections to suicide revolve around the fact that the agent cannot know that their life will not improve. Even…
Honourable Mention: Jules Desai: Is there a moral difference between Corpses biological and artificial? Runner Up: Tanae Rao: Why, if at all, is it unethical for universities to prioritise applicants related to their alumni Undergraduate Category Please join us in…
Audio and video recordings of David Lyreskog’s online St Cross Seminar (25 February 2021) are now available. Abstract: It is no exaggeration that the philosophical and ethical dimensions of age-related cognitive decline and dementia have been discussed for millennia, nor…
Overall, there are pros and cons to a fully online conference, for sure. In-person meetings provide forms of interaction that are difficult to duplicate online. But our main takeaway is that the virtual format worked surprisingly better than we expected,…
Trappes, R., Cohnitz, D., Pâslaru, V., Perkins, T. J., & Teymoori, A. (2020). The Online Alternative: Sustainability, Justice, And Conferencing In Philosophy. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 16(2), 145–171. DOI: 10.31820/ejap.16.2.7 The Advantages Of Online Events (Are Well-Known) Proctor, K….
If you’re interested, you can read it here. How do we find out what really matters in life? One way might be to ask those who are dying. They might occupy a perspective that allows them to see better what’s…
