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30Historical Contingency and Theory Selection in SciencePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.I argue that historical contingency, in the sense of the order in which events take place, can be an essential factor in determining which of two equally adequate and fruitful, but observationally indistinguishable, scientific theories is accepted by the scientific community. This type of actual underdetermination poses questions for scientific realism and for rational reconstruction in theory evaluation. To illustrate this, I discuss the complete observational equivalence of two radically diffe…Read more
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29Nonviolent Resistance: Trust and Risk-TakingJournal of Religious Ethics 1. 1973.This paper analyzes nonviolent resistance and direct action, as seen by its practitioners and theoreticians, from the standpoint of trust and risk-taking. After an examination of the nature of trust, the author indicates how it can illuminate what selected figures such as Gandhi and King have claimed about nonviolence. He offers this analysis not as a defense but as a way of understanding nonviolence that can serve as a starting point for further discussion.
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19Infantile physical morphology—marked by its “cuteness”—is thought to be a potent elicitor of caregiving, yet little is known about how cuteness may shape immediate behavior. To examine the function of cuteness and its role in caregiving, the authors tested whether perceiving cuteness can enhance behavioral carefulness, which would facilitate caring for a small, delicate child. In 2 experiments, viewing very cute images (puppies and kittens)—as opposed to slightly cute images (dogs and cats)—led …Read more
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Reconceiving perceptual spaceIn Heiko Hecht Margaret Atherton & Schwartz Robert (eds.), Looking into Pictures, Mit Press. 2003.
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A youth advisory group on health and health research in rural CambodiaGlobal Bioethics 35 (1). 2024.Engaging young people in health research has been promoted globally. We explored the outcomes of youth advisory group on health and research engagement (YAGHRE) in rural Cambodia. In May 2021, the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) partnered with a local health centre and a secondary school to establish a youth engagement group. Ten students underwent training and led health engagement activities in schools and communities. Activities were documented as field notes and audio-v…Read more
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On Wittgenstein's transcendental deductionsBelgrade Philosophical Annual 2017 (30): 151-173. 2017.In this paper, I aim to shed light on the use of transcendental deductions, within demonstrations of aspects of Wittgenstein's early semantics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics. I focus on two crucial claims introduced by Wittgenstein within these transcendental deductions, each identified in conversation with Desmond Lee in 1930-31. Specifically, the claims are of the logical independence of elementary propositions, and that infinity is a number. I show how these two, crucial claims a…Read more
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1Minor Consent for Vaccination: Ethically Justified, Politically FraughtJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 52 (1): 62-64. 2024.Policies allowing some minors to consent to receive recommended vaccines are ethically defensible. However, a policy change at the federal level expanding minor consent for vaccinations nationwide risks triggering a political backlash. Such a move may be perceived as infringing on the rights of parents to make decisions about their children’s health care. In the current post-COVID environment of heightened anti-vaccination activism, changes to minor consent laws may be unadvisable, and policy ma…Read more
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2Introduction to the special issue: Commemorating Philip CushmanJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 44 (2): 75-79. 2024.
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402A Strategy for Origins of Life Research (review)Astrobiology 15 1031-1042. 2015.Aworkshop was held August 26–28, 2015, by the Earth- Life Science Institute (ELSI) Origins Network (EON, see Appendix I) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. This meeting gathered a diverse group of around 40 scholars researching the origins of life (OoL) from various perspectives with the intent to find common ground, identify key questions and investigations for progress, and guide EON by suggesting a roadmap of activities. Specific challenges that the attendees were encouraged to address inc…Read more
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11Rights and dangers: Bioterrorism and the ideologies of public healthIn Jonathan D. Moreno (ed.), In the wake of terror: medicine and morality in a time of crisis, Mit Press. pp. 51--74. 2003.
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68The Case Against Organoid ConsciousnessNeuroethics 17 (1): 1-15. 2024.Neural organoids are laboratory-generated entities that replicate certain structural and functional features of the human brain. Most neural organoids are disembodied—completely decoupled from sensory input and motor output. As such, questions about their potential capacity for consciousness are exceptionally difficult to answer. While not disputing the need for caution regarding certain neural organoid types, this paper appeals to two broad constraints on any adequate theory of consciousness—th…Read more
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4One of the challenges of studying religious experiences is that believers may feel that their first-person accounts are potentially profaned when subjected to psychological or anthropological analy...
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13Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundariesConsciousness and Cognition 119 (C): 103655. 2024.
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Fredric Jameson and the rise of world literature : from world systems theory to uneven and combined developmentIn James Christie & Nesrin Degirmencioglu (eds.), Cultures of uneven and combined development: from international relations to world literature, Brill. 2019.
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2Oxiforms: Unique cysteine residue‐ and chemotype‐specified chemical combinations can produce functionally‐distinct proteoformsBioessays 45 (7): 2200248. 2023.A single protein molecule with one or more cysteine residues can occupy a plurality of unique residue and oxidation‐chemotype specified proteoforms that I term oxiforms. In binary reduced or oxidised terms, one molecule with three cysteines will adopt one of eight unique oxiforms. Residue‐defined sulfur chemistry endows specific oxiforms with distinct functionally‐relevant biophysical properties (e.g., steric effects). Their emergent complexity means a functionally‐relevant effect may only manif…Read more
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4Experience and Judgment (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 1973.In _Experience and Judgment, _Husserl explores the problems of contemporary philosophy of language and the constitution of logical forms. He argues that, even at its most abstract, logic demands an underlying theory of experience. Husserl sketches out a genealogy of logic in three parts: Part I examines prepredicative experience, Part II the structure of predicative thought as such, and Part III the origin of general conceptual thought. This volume provides an articulate restatement of many of t…Read more
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Manual of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human MindPalala Press. 2016.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of A…Read more
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6From Soul to Self (edited book)Routledge. 1999._From Soul to Self_ takes the reader on a fascinating journey through philosophy, theology, religious studies, and physiological sciences. Each of the essays, drawn from a number of different fields, focuses on the idea of the soul and of our sense of ourselves. A stellar line-up of authors explore the relationship between a variety of ideas that have arisen in philosophy, religion and science, each idea seeking to explain why we think that we as individuals are somehow distinct and unique. Cont…Read more
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6The Public Involvement ManualUpa. 1981.To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com
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6Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity (edited book)Lexington Books. 2011.Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity is an edited collection of sixteen essays on the idea of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Reconsidering the eighteenth-century realist novel, twentieth-century modernism, and underappreciated topics on individualism and literature, this volume provocatively revises and enriches our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself
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8Religion, Secularization and Political Thought: Thomas Hobbes to J. S. Mill (edited book)Routledge. 1990.The increasing secularization of political thought between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has often been noted, but rarely described in detail. The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the relationship between religious beliefs, dogma and secular ideas in British political philosophy from Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill. During this period, Britain experienced the advance of natural science, the spread of education and other social improvements, and reforms in th…Read more
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7Causality as an Overarching Principle in PhysicsPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986 (1): 1-11. 1986.In the recent philosophy of science literature, several authors have stressed the many-faceted and evolving nature of the scientific enterprise. Dudley Shapere (1984, pp. xiii-xv) characterizes a central weakness of the logical empirical program as its focus on the formal logical structure of scientific theories to the exclusion of the process by which these theories were constructed, thus ignoring the possibility of fundamental changes in the nature of science itself. He has stressed the import…Read more
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2Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian LegendSUNY Press. 1994.This book focuses on how and why various cultures have appropriated the story of King Arthur. It is about re-vision, how cultures alter inherited texts and are, in turn, changed by them, and it deals with the ways in which various cultures have empowered the Arthurian legend so that power might be derived from it. The authors suggest that the vitality of the Arthurian legend resides in its ability to be transformed and to transform, in its potential for appropriation and use. Culture and the Kin…Read more
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