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Hpv Vaccines And Cancer Prevention, Science Versus Activism, Lucija Tomljenovic, Roslyn Judith Wilyman, Eva Vanamee, Christopher A. Shaw
Hpv Vaccines And Cancer Prevention, Science Versus Activism, Lucija Tomljenovic, Roslyn Judith Wilyman, Eva Vanamee, Christopher A. Shaw
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The rationale behind current worldwide human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination programs starts from two basic premises, 1) that HPV vaccines will prevent cervical cancers and save lives and, 2) have no risk of serious side effects. Therefore, efforts should be made to get as many pre-adolescent girls vaccinated in order to decrease the burden of cervical cancer. Careful analysis of HPV vaccine pre- and post-licensure data shows however that both of these premises are at odds with factual evidence and are largely derived from significant misinterpretation of available data
Knowing What? Radical Versus Conservative Enactivism, Daniel D. Hutto
Knowing What? Radical Versus Conservative Enactivism, Daniel D. Hutto
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The binary divide between traditional cognitivist and enactivist paradigms is tied to their respective commitments to understanding cognition as based on knowing that as opposed to knowing how. Using O’Regan’s and Noe’s landmark sensorimotor contingency theory of perceptual experience as a foil, I demonstrate how easy it is to fall into conservative thinking. Although their account is advertised as decidedly ‘skill-based’, on close inspection it shows itself to be riddled with suppositions threatening to reduce it to a rules-and-representations approach. To remain properly enactivist it must be purged of such commitments and indeed all commitment to mediating knowledge: it must …
Correspondence: Isms And Schisms: Culturalism Versus Realism In Security Studies, Theo G. Farrell
Correspondence: Isms And Schisms: Culturalism Versus Realism In Security Studies, Theo G. Farrell
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In "Culture Clash," Michael Desch offers a dismissive assessment of the new culturalist wave in security studies.1 Desch ªnds cultural variables hard to deªne and operationalize, culturalists reluctant to generalize across cases, and inconsistencies within culturalism in security studies such that some cultural theories have more in common with realist theories than with other cultural ones. I deal with each of these criticisms in turn. I then focus on Desch's call for culturalists to subject their theories to "crucial tests." I propose an alternative method, more favored by social scientists and accepted by realists, of comparing realism and culturalism as …