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548Minds, Machines, And Mathematics A Review of Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose (review)PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 2 11-20. 1995.In his stimulating book SHADOWS OF THE MIND, Roger Penrose presents arguments, based on Gödel's theorem, for the conclusion that human thought is uncomputable. There are actually two separate arguments in Penrose's book. The second has been widely ignored, but seems to me to be much more interesting and novel than the first. I will address both forms of the argument in some detail. Toward the end, I will also comment on Penrose's proposals for a "new science of consciousness".
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3The expectation gap, risk management and the Australian HREC systemMonash Bioethics Review 21 (3). 2002.The Australian HREC system is experiencing increasing workloads and greater public scrutiny. Dr Dodds asks whether the system is sustainable and aims to encourage a constructive critical debate about the system. This article suggests there is a gap between the demands on the system and expectations of researchers, regulators and the community. The evolution of the HREC system reached a significant milestone of the publication of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Hum…Read more
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12Peter McLaren: Revolutionary Critical PedagogueEducational Philosophy and Theory 37 (5): 764-770. 2005.
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5A Peer Group Assessment of a Radical Pedagogical ActivistEducational Philosophy and Theory 37 (5): 761-764. 2005.
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10Research Involving Humans: A Time for Change?Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 32 (4): 583-595. 2004.Amongst Professor Dickens’ extensive writings on medical law and medical jurisprudence are a host of distinguished contributions on the subject of the proper legal and ethical limits on human experimentation. As early as 1975, Professor Dickens was examining the legal aspects of human experimentation. A few years later he was promoting the responsibility of researchers to recognize and protect human rights in medical experimentation. In the last two decades, Professor Dickens has penned a rich f…Read more
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20Biobanking and Privacy Laws in AustraliaJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 43 (4): 703-713. 2015.Australia is a multi-cultural society with a population of nearly 24 million. The Aboriginal heritage traces back some 40,000 years and continues to influence Australian culture as a whole. A large proportion of Australian citizens were of British descent or birth at the outset of the last century, but post-World War II there was significant immigration from other European nations, particularly from Greece and Italy. In the last decades, there has been a significant intake of migrants from Asia.
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441Précis of The Conscious Mind (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (2): 435-438. 1999.Chapter 1: Two Concepts of Mind. I distinguish the phenomenal and psychological concepts of mind. I argue that every mental state is a phenomenal state, a psychological state, or a hybrid of the two. I discuss the two mind-body problems corresponding to the two concepts of mind, and discuss the various senses of the term “consciousness”. Chapter 2: Supervenience and Explanation. I distinguish varieties of supervenience, especially logical and natural supervenience, where supervening properties c…Read more
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Alpharabii Vetustissimi Aristotelis Interpretis, Opera Omnia, Quae Latina Lingu' Conscripta Reperiri PotueruntApud Dionysium Moreau,. 1638.
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6At first glance, the first informed consent case to be decided by the High Court of Australia appears to be little more than a clear and simple description of the substantive law accepted in most American jurisdictions—although that is no small accomplishment in and of itself. In Rogers v. Whitaker, the highest court in Aus (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2 371-379. 1993.
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153Books for review and for listing here should be addressed to Emily Zakin, Review Editor, Department of Philosophy, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056Teaching Philosophy 25 (4): 403. 2002.
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19Is there a need or space for gene technology ethics: An Australian perspectiveIn Darryl R. J. Macer (ed.), Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Biotechnology and Bioethics, Unesco Bangkok. pp. 1888. 2008.
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43Malpractice Liability for the Failure to Adequately Educate Patients: The Australian Law of “Informed Consent” and Its Implications for American Ethics CommitteesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2 (3): 371. 1993.At first glance, the first informed consent case to be decided by the High Court of Australia appears to be little more than a clear and simple description of the substantive law accepted in most American jurisdictions - although that is no small accomplishment in and of itself. In Rogers v. Whitaker, the highest court in Australia succinctly and persuasively rejected informed consent as a species of battery law, accepted it as a form, of ordinary professional negligence law, and adopted the “Am…Read more
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199Syntactic transformations on distributed representationsConnection Science 2 53-62. 1990.There has been much interest in the possibility of connectionist models whose representations can be endowed with compositional structure, and a variety of such models have been proposed. These models typically use distributed representations that arise from the functional composition of constituent parts. Functional composition and decomposition alone, however, yield only an implementation of classical symbolic theories. This paper explores the possibility of moving beyond implementation by exp…Read more
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20Research Involving Humans: A Time for Change?Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 32 (4): 583-595. 2004.Amongst Professor Dickens’ extensive writings on medical law and medical jurisprudence are a host of distinguished contributions on the subject of the proper legal and ethical limits on human experimentation. As early as 1975, Professor Dickens was examining the legal aspects of human experimentation. A few years later he was promoting the responsibility of researchers to recognize and protect human rights in medical experimentation. In the last two decades, Professor Dickens has penned a rich f…Read more
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157B Chandrasekaran writes: It appears that there are three realms: the realm of matter, the realm of representations, and the realm of qualia/intentions/consciousness, not just two: matter and consciousness. I like this distinction, although I think there might more naturally be four realms to distinguish.
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16A Peer group assessment of a radical pedagogical activistEducational Philosophy and Theory 37 (5). 2005.
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