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33Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands by Sergio Sismondo (review)Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 29 (2): 12-16. 2019.Ghost-Managed Medicine exposes the conspiracy to conceal all of the players in the marketing of drugs, including ghostwriters, key opinion leaders, patient advocacy organizations, contract research organizations, publication planners, and even medical journal editors and publishers. The credibility of the claims conveyed by the industry depends on the invisibility of these players.
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30Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology by William Craig and Quentin Smith (review)Philosophical Books 36 (3): 211-213. 1995.
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29Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic FreedomMens Sana Monographs 6 (1): 146. 2008.The current situation in medicine has been described as a crisis of credibility, as the profit motive of industry has taken control of clinical trials and the dissemination of data. Pharmaceutical companies maintain a stranglehold over the content of medical journals in three ways: (1) by ghostwriting articles that bias the results of clinical trials, (2) by the sheer economic power they exert on journals due to the purchase of drug advertisements and journal reprints, and (3) by the threat of l…Read more
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28The Axiomatic Matrix of Whitehead’s Process and RealityProcess Studies 15 (3): 172-180. 1986.This essay compares the fundamental metaphysical principles, the Categoreal Scheme of A. N. Whitehead's Process and Reality with the axiomatic-deductive scheme of Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica to reveal the influence of mathematical logic on Whitehead's metaphysics.
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26The New Aspects of Time. Its Continuity and Novelties Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Science by Milič Čapek (review)Review of Metaphysics 45 (3): 604-605. 1992.In his vigorous defense of the reality of time, Capek champions a tradition of process philosophy that includes such figures as Bergson, James, and Whitehead, against both philosophers and physicists that subordinate time to some lower status in reality or regard it as a peculiar dimension of space. This is, in fact, the point of his last essay in this volume, "Time-Space Rather than Space-Time," where he argues, contrary to standard interpretations, that relativity physics does not necessitate …Read more
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26Is Science Neurotic? by Nicholas Maxwell (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (3): 657-659. 2006.The argument of this book is the culmination of the author’s work that has been under way since the 1970s, and it brings together a wealth of ideas from his earlier books, What’s Wrong with Science?, From Knowledge to Wisdom, The Comprehensibility of the Universe, and The Human World and the Physical Universe. There are fine tunings of points and discussion of cutting-edge developments in physics that provide an excellent update to his views. Maxwell also explains the basic principles of the the…Read more
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25The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine by Jeremy Howick (review)Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 27 (3): 1-5. 2017.The idea that prescribing physicians should be guided by the most reliable scientific evidence seems obvious, but the actual methodology of evidence-based medicine was only introduced in the early 1990s by an international group of clinicians and researchers led by Gordon Guyatt. Since then it has provided a new paradigm for the scientific foundation of medicine and has influenced other disciplines outside of medicine, for example, evidence-based psychotherapy, science and government. The novel …Read more
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25Sprigge’s Philosophical IdealismBradley Studies 9 (2): 109-125. 2003.For the past forty years, Timothy Sprigge has been a major player on the British philosophical scene contributing to discussions as diverse as consciousness, the ontology of time, personal identity, animal rights, punishment, censorship and wider issues in metaphysics, ethics and the history of philosophy. He is, however, less well known for his own highly original system of metaphysics and ethics—a synthesis of absolute idealism, panpsychism and utilitarianism. This system was constructed again…Read more
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25Medical Nihilism By Jacob Stegenga (review)Analysis 80 (3): 610-613. 2020.Nihilism, as most commonly understood, is the existential thesis that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Medical nihilism is the radical skepticism, indeed cynicism, about the objectivity, purpose or value of medical interventions. According to Stegenga, it is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical treatments. Stegenga provides a rigorous epistemological investigation into the evidence for medical interventions, one that is i…Read more
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21From an Ontological Point of View by John Heil (review)Review of Metaphysics 57 (3): 620-621. 2004.The first thing to note about the present work is that it is divided into twenty short chapters, all of which contain numbered sections averaging two to three pages in length. This organization adds to the concision and clarity of the book and works well with Heil’s attempt to present ideas in an unpretentious manner. The dust jacket tells us that the book is written in an accessible, nontechnical style that is intended for nonspecialists as well as seasoned metaphysicians. But despite the organ…Read more
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21Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression by David Healy (review)Mens Sana Monographs 5 (1): 228-232. 2007.
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17Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time by Tim Maudlin (review)Process Studies 41 (2): 349-353. 2012.
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16Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem by David Griffin (review)Faith and Philosophy 16 (2): 269-272. 1999.
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15Extension and the Theory of the Physical UniverseIn Michel Weber (ed.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, De Gruyter. pp. 291-302. 2008.In this chapter I provide an elementary exposition of the development of Whitehead's view of objectivity and his theory of extension, with particular focus on explaining how macroscopic objects of ordinary perception and the whole structure of space-time arise out of the units of his ontology, namely, the actual occasions. I also review the scholarship on Whitehead's view of extension and discuss the major problems that arise in connection with the theory in his magnum opus, Process and Reality…Read more
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15Experience and Relations in the Metaphysics of A.N. Whitehead and F. H. BradleyDissertation, University of Edinburgh. 1984.This thesis examines the affinities and contracts between A. N. Whitehead's process metaphysics and F. H. Bradley's Absolute Idealism. Whitehead drew upon Bradley's notion of experience in formulating his ontology, but disagreed sharply with Bradley on the status of relations. Whereas Bradley argued that relations and temporal transition are riddled with contradictions and cannot adequately characterize the nature of reality, Whitehead's interpretation of experience as happening in atomic or e…Read more
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13The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North WhiteheadEdinburgh University Press. 2015.In this monograph, I argue that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. I investigate the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compare Whitehead’s theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as another key proponent of this theory, W. V. Quine. In this …Read more
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12Popper and Maxwell on Scientific ProgressIn Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell, Ontos Verlag. pp. 233-248. 2009.Karl Popper's celebrated theory of falsification provides a rigorous view of science but it has been criticized as failing to explain how science makes progress. In this essay, I compare Popper's falsificationism with Nicholas Maxwell's aim-oriented empiricism and examine the role that metaphysics plays in explaining scientific progress.
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9British Philosophers, 1800-2000Bruccoli Clark Layman. 2002.In this volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, notable British philosophers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are represented, including thinkers from the traditions of empiricism, idealism, logical positivism, and analytical philosophy.
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8Reflections on Philosophy Introductory EssaysSt. Martin's Press. 1993.In this introduction to philosophy, philosophers in their areas of specialization have produced essays written specifically for the novice. The collection includes traditional topics such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of religion , personal identity, and contemporary topics such as philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
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7The Importance of Subjectivity: Selected Essays in Metaphysics and Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. The idealist worldview, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. These selected essays focus on the view of consciousness on which his unique system of metaphysics and ethics is based.
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7American Philosophers, 1950-2000Bruccoli Clark Layman. 2002.In this volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, notable philosophers of the Anglo-American tradition, analytical philosophy, are represented as well as other philosophers who made significant contributions to American philosophy in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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6Teorie descrittive e revisioniste degli eventiNóema 11 19-31. 2020.All’inizio del secolo XX, tre filosofi di Cambridge, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, e Charlie Dunbar Broad, sostennero un’ontologia basata sugli eventi che si riteneva fosse compatibile con la recente teoria della relatività . Gli eventi, perciò, rimpiazzavano le sostanze aristoteliche in veste di componenti primari dell’universo – essi erano concepiti come unità di spazio-tempo che si estendevano spazio-temporalmente e che si sovrapponevano al campo elettromagnetico. Via via che la f…Read more
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6Whitehead and Bradley: A Comparative AnalysisState University of New York. 1992.In his magnum opus, Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead claims a special affinity to Oxford philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley. McHenry clarifies exactly how much of Whitehead's metaphysics is influenced by and accords with the main principles of Bradley's absolute idealism. He argues that many of Whitehead's doctrines cannot be understood without an adequate understanding of Bradley, in terms of both affinities and contrasts. He evaluates the arguments between them and explores severa…Read more
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6Philosophy: The Classic ReadingsCognella. 2010.Philosophy: The Classic Readings is a collection of accessible readings from the history of philosophy specifically intended for the introductory student. The readings were chosen for courses that focus on metaphysics and epistemology. Each reading contains a brief introduction to the philosopher's life and works, thought-provoking study questions, and a bibliography for further reading at the end of each chapter. The philosophers include Plato, Aristotle, Rene Descartes, John Locke, David Hume,…Read more
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