To the free will sceptics, this is all just a desperate attempt at face-saving and changing the subject – an effort to redefine free will not as the thing we all feel, when faced with a choice, but as something…
AFB goes as follows:Smithies might complain that I am exaggerating the gap between actual blindsighters and stipulated blindsighters. Perhaps we do not have to worry about the gap because the stipulated cases are at least in some close possible worlds…
The role I have in mind is a signalling function. A major role of universities is helping employers to make hiring decisions. Many of the positions that graduates go on to occupy don’t require the kind of skills that universities…
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Although “virtue of practical judgment”™ is a technical term in the book, the corresponding vices are easily recognizable. The person who needs very specific and strict policies manifests the vice of inflexibility; these are the people who cannot carpe the…
[3] Please don’t guess Flamengo; the right answer is Fluminense. These three types of preference provide some structure, though they will typically be localized. They might generate fine-grained preference orderings among possible means of building a house, but they will…
Support for the doctor’s unconventional approach might come from a view recently developed by philosopher Moti Gorin and colleagues. They argue that a patient’s best interests should be a doctor’s primary guide in influencing medical decision-making, at least in situations…
At this point you might be tempted to say that this is all wrong-headed: “there must be a last moment at which I can stop listening to the radio without compromising my baking, and decision theory gets it right that…
Recent advances in anaesthetic techniques – using ultra slow infusions of medicines – mean that it is possible to give them to patients close to death without affecting their breathing. The medicine is given slowly, and the patient made unconscious…
The authors believe the UK medical community should prepare for increased requests for general anaesthesia for end-of-life care, based on current trends in Western Europe and Scandinavia. “It is vital that patients are informed of all the legal options available…
[4] Of course, you want to hear more about what counts as an “acceptable determination” of an indeterminate end. So, as an instrumentally rational agent, you should now buy the book; I promise there is more there! Under ETR, the…
That is, their moral status should be ascertained before treating them like a normal animal. This will require agreeing on what confers moral status and finding ways to detect it. When in doubt, higher moral status should be accorded. Firstly,…
I can now give the first outline of ETR. According to ETR, both the basic given attitudes and the attitudes that constitute that standard exercises of practical reason are intentional actions. Its sole principle of derivation is a version of the Principle of Instrumental…
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. One strategy would be to aim for the elimination of the virus within the UK. New Zealand successfully implemented an elimination strategy earlier in…
