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Just Reason, Catherine Hundleby, Phyllis Rooney
Just Reason, Catherine Hundleby, Phyllis Rooney
Philosophy Publications
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Can Only Religion Save Us?, Jeff Noonan
Can Only Religion Save Us?, Jeff Noonan
Philosophy Publications
This paper will examine the loss of confidence in secular bases for the normative understanding of, and response to, the fundamental social and political problems. The recent arguments of Richard Falk in favour of a religious foundation for a humane globalization will be taken as paradigmatic. While the paper agrees that the normative core of major world religions supports Falk's particular conclusion that religion can provide the content for a universal critique of inhumane global governance, it will conclude that the universal claim that global human solidarity today can only be built on the basis of religious faith does not …
The Authority Of The Fallacies Approach To Argument Evaluation, Catherine Hundleby
The Authority Of The Fallacies Approach To Argument Evaluation, Catherine Hundleby
Philosophy Publications
No abstract provided.
Emotional Arguments: Ancient And Contemporary Views, Leo Groarke
Emotional Arguments: Ancient And Contemporary Views, Leo Groarke
Philosophy Publications
The prodigious development of argumentation theory over the last three decades has raised many issues that challenge some of the long held assumptions that characterize the traditional study of argument. One of these issues is the role of emotion in argument and argument analysis. While rhetoric has, with its emphasis on persuasion, always recognized that emotions play some role determining which arguments we accept and reject, a long tradition sees appeals to emotion as fallacies that violate the standards of rationality and objectivity reason and argument require.
Harm Or Mere Inconvenience? Denying Women Emergency Contraception, Carolyn Mcleod
Harm Or Mere Inconvenience? Denying Women Emergency Contraception, Carolyn Mcleod
Philosophy Publications
This paper addresses the likely impact on women of being denied emergency contraception (EC) by pharmacists who conscientiously refuse to provide it. A common view—defended by Elizabeth Fenton and Loren Lomasky, among others—is that these refusals inconvenience rather than harm women so long as the women can easily get EC somewhere else nearby. I argue from a feminist perspective that the refusals harm women even when they can easily get EC somewhere else nearby.
Morally Justifying Oncofertility Research, Carolyn Mcleod
Morally Justifying Oncofertility Research, Carolyn Mcleod
Philosophy Publications
Is research aimed at preserving the fertility of cancer patients morally justified? A satisfying answer to this question is missing from the literature on oncofertility. Rather than providing an answer, which is impossible to do in a short space, this chapter explains what it would take to provide such justification.
Morally Justifying Oncofertility Science, Carolyn Mcleod
Morally Justifying Oncofertility Science, Carolyn Mcleod
Philosophy Publications
Is research aimed at preserving the fertility of cancer patients morally justified? A satisfying answer to this question is missing from the literature on oncofertility. Rather than provide an answer, which is impossible to do in a short space, this paper explains what it would take to provide such justification.
Focused Attention, Open Monitoring And Automatic Self-Transcending: Categories To Organize Meditations From Vedic, Buddhist And Chinese Traditions, Fred Travis, Jonathan Shear
Focused Attention, Open Monitoring And Automatic Self-Transcending: Categories To Organize Meditations From Vedic, Buddhist And Chinese Traditions, Fred Travis, Jonathan Shear
Philosophy Publications
This paper proposes a third meditation-category—automatic self-transcending— to extend the dichotomy of focused attention and open monitoring proposed by Lutz. Automatic self-transcending includes techniques designed to transcend their own activity. This contrasts with focused attention, which keeps attention focused on an object; and open monitoring, which keeps attention involved in the monitoring process. Each category was assigned EEG bands, based on reported brain patterns during mental tasks, and meditations were categorized based on their reported EEG. Focused attention, characterized by beta/gamma activity, included meditations from Tibetan Buddhist, Buddhist, and Chinese traditions. Open Monitoring, characterized by …