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    A remark on Hempel's replies to his critics.Stephens M. Dietz - 1970 - Philosophy of Science 37 (4):614-617.
    One of the most difficult problems facing anyone who would discuss Professor Carl Hempel's thesis about explanation is the following: which of the many objections that have been made are actually relevant to the thesis? Professor Hempel has claimed that several of these objections are not relevant at all. In order to evaluate such replies, let me first state what I take to be the three claims which constitute Professor Hempel's thesis.His first claim is that all adequate scientific explanations possess (...)
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    The basic components of the human mind were not solidified during the Pleistocene epoch.Stephen M. Downes - 2009 - In Francisco José Ayala & Robert Arp, Contemporary debates in philosophy of biology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 243–252.
    There are a number of competing hypotheses about human evolution. For example, Homo habilis and Homo erectus could have existed together, or one could have evolved from the other, and paleontological evidence may allow us to decide between these two hypotheses (see, e.g., Spoor et al., 2007). For most who work on the biology of human behavior, there is no question that human behavior is in some large part a product of evolution. But, there are competing hypotheses in this area (...)
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    Caffeine and impulsiveness in rats.Stephen R. Flora & Max A. Dietze - 1993 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 31 (1):39-41.
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    Letter to the Honorable Kare R. Aas, Ambassador of Norway to the U.S.A.Stephen M. Krason & D. Brian Scarnecchia - 2018 - Catholic Social Science Review 23:385-387.
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  5. Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate.Stephen M. Kosslyn - 1994 - MIT Press.
    This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental ...
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    Remarks on Aristotle’s Revenge.Stephen M. Barr - 2020 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94 (3):475-482.
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    1965.Stephen M. Krason - 2016 - Catholic Social Science Review 21:191-194.
    This was one of SCSS President Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appeared during 2015 in Crisismagazine.com and The Wanderer and at his blog site. It discusses the seminal year 1965, when so many of our current social, cultural, and political problems and our difficulties in the Church began to take shape. It discusses the nature of the “new direction” that became evident that year, how crucial trends took shape, and how the developments of that (...)
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    The Supreme Court’s Same-Sex “Marriage” Decision.Stephen M. Krason - 2016 - Catholic Social Science Review 21:199-204.
    This was one of SCSS President Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appeared during 2015 in Crisismagazine.com and The Wanderer and at his blog site. It discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 decision on same-sex “marriage,” Obergefell v. Hodges, and its likely implications for religious liberty, true marriage, and children. He says it is the latest expression of concocted rights under the Court’s “substantive-due-process” doctrine. He suggests ways to respond to the decision politically and (...)
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    US War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation by Kelly Denton-Borhaug.Stephen M. Vantassel - 2015 - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 35 (2):201-202.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:US War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation by Kelly Denton-BorhaugStephen M. VantasselUS War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation Kelly Denton-Borhaug oakville, ct: equinox, 2011. 279 pp. $34.95In US War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation, Kelly Denton-Borhaug uses cultural and linguistic analysis in order to understand the place of war in American culture and discourse. She begins by noting that war culture is so deeply embedded in America’s ethos that its citizens are generally unaware (...)
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    Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences, and Speculative Harm: Current American Scourges.Stephen M. Krason - 2005 - Catholic Social Science Review 10:345-347.
    The author notes how American public policy typically springs from good intentions, but brings unforeseeable consequences that cause new social problems. It also increasingly seeks to address speculative, not actual or certain, harms. He gives numerous examples and argues that the effect is increasingly expansive state power and heightened intrusion into private areas of individual and family lives. He also argues that all three public policy trends grow out of modern utopian tendencies and secularism.
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    The Charlie Gard Case.Stephen M. Krason - 2018 - Catholic Social Science Review 23:367-370.
    This was one of SCSS President Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appear monthly in Crisis and The Wanderer. It discusses the tragic case of Charlie Gard, the baby who a U.K. hospital would not discharge so his parents could take him to the U.S. for experimental treatment for a rare, normally terminal DNA disorder that might have saved his life. Krason says that the case illustrated a number of dangerous current trends in Western political (...)
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  12. A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change.Stephen M. Gardiner - 2011 - , US: Oup Usa.
    Climate change is a global problem that is predominantly an intergenerational conflict, and which takes place in a setting where our ethical impulses are weak. This "perfect moral storm" poses a profound challenge to humanity. This book explains how the "perfect storm" metaphor makes sense of our current malaise, and why a better ethics can help see our way out.
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  13. Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead?Stephen M. Campbell, Pengbo Liu & Sven Nyholm - forthcoming - Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
    Imagine that you are given access to an AI chatbot that compellingly mimics the personality and speech of a deceased loved one. If you start having regular interactions with this “thanabot,” could this new relationship be a continuation of the relationship you had with your loved one? And could a relationship with a thanabot preserve or replicate the value of a close human relationship? To the first question, we argue that a relationship with a thanabot cannot be a true continuation (...)
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    Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead?Stephen M. Campbell, Pengbo Liu & Sven Nyholm - forthcoming - Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
    ABSTRACT Imagine that you are given access to an AI chatbot that compellingly mimics the personality and speech of a deceased loved one. If you start having regular interactions with this “thanabot,” could this new relationship be a continuation of the relationship you had with your loved one? And could a relationship with a thanabot preserve or replicate the value of a close human relationship? To the first question, we argue that a relationship with a thanabot cannot be a true (...)
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    The Letter Kills but the Spirit Gives Life.Stephen M. Hildebrand - 2000 - Augustinian Studies 31 (1):19-39.
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    Utilization of Services by Chronically Ill People in Managed Care and Indemnity Plans: Implications for Quality.Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J. Michael Oakes, Sybil Crawford, David Blumenthal & Daniel P. Valentine - 2003 - Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 40 (1):57-70.
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    Aristophanes in Chariton again.Stephen M. Trzaskoma - 2011 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 155 (2):367-368.
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    Debating Climate Ethics Revisited.Stephen M. Gardiner - 2021 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 24 (2):89-111.
    ABSTRACT In Debating Climate Ethics, David Weisbach and I offer contrasting views of the importance of ethics and justice for climate policy. I argue that ethics is central. Weisbach advocates for climate policy based purely on narrow forms of self-interest. For this symposium, I summarize the major themes, and extend my basic argument. I claim that ethics gets the problem right, whereas dismissing ethics risks getting the problem dangerously wrong, and perpetuating profound injustices. One consequence is that we should reject (...)
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    Needed Now: An Organized Effort and Plan to Defeat the Left.Stephen M. Krason - 2022 - Catholic Social Science Review 27:193-196.
    This was one of SCSS President Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns in The Wanderer in 2021. In it, he explains the need to in an organized manner oppose the left and how, in a general way, it needs to be done. This article is reprinted with permission.
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    Approaching Religious Guidelines for Chimera Policymaking.Stephen M. Modell - 2007 - Zygon 42 (3):629-642.
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    The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Life Sciences.Stephen M. Modell - 2008 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 31 (2-3):160-182.
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  22. Using the Human Body as a Paradigm for the Structure of Time: Some Reflections on Time’s URAM.Stephen M. Modell - 1994 - Ultimate Reality and Meaning 17 (3):197-221.
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    Lattice embeddings and array noncomputable degrees.Stephen M. Walk - 2004 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 50 (3):219.
    We focus on a particular class of computably enumerable degrees, the array noncomputable degrees defined by Downey, Jockusch, and Stob, to answer questions related to lattice embeddings and definability in the partial ordering of c. e. degrees under Turing reducibility. We demonstrate that the latticeM5 cannot be embedded into the c. e. degrees below every array noncomputable degree, or even below every nonlow array noncomputable degree. As Downey and Shore have proved that M5 can be embedded below every nonlow2 degree, (...)
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    Future Ethics.Stephen M. Gardiner - 2013 - In Armin Grunwald, Handbuch Technikethik. Stuttgart: Metzler. pp. 203-207.
    Like it or not, technologists are increasingly being called upon to »save the world«, including from themselves. Today, science and engineering professionals stand on the front-lines both in generating severe risks to the future, and in the search for solutions. This chapter examines the ethical context of their predicament. It begins by outlining the central, characteristic threat to the future, the »tyranny of the contemporary«.
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    Dewey's challenge to teachers.McCarthy Stephen M. Fishman Lucille - 2010 - Education and Culture 26 (2):3-19.
    In 1932, as America struggled to overcome the great economic depression and Hitler was taking power in Germany, Dewey issued a challenge to teachers. Based upon what he viewed as the principle by which to judge "the processes of education, formal and informal," he urged teachers to embrace the following goal: "Education should create an interest in all persons in furthering the general good, so that they will find their own happiness realized in what they can do to improve the (...)
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  26. Are you experienced? What you don't know about your climbing experience.Stephen M. Downes - 2010 - In Fritz Allhoff & Stephen E. Schmid, Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone: Because It's There. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
     
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    An Early History of the Heritability Coefficient Applied to Humans.Stephen M. Downes & Eric Turkheimer - 2022 - Biological Theory 17 (2):126-137.
    Fisher’s 1918 paper accomplished two distinct goals: unifying discrete Mendelian genetics with continuous biometric phenotypes and quantifying the variance components of variation in complex human characteristics. The former contributed to the foundation of modern quantitative genetics; the latter was adopted by social scientists interested in the pursuit of Galtonian nature-nurture questions about the biological and social origins of human behavior, especially human intelligence. This historical divergence has produced competing notions of the estimation of variance ratios referred to as heritability. Jay (...)
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    Bartes' The Fashion System.Stephen M. Verba - 1984 - Semiotics:471-489.
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    Neural Network Models as Evidence for Different Types of Visual Representations.Stephen M. Kosslyn, Christopher F. Chabris & David P. Baker - 1995 - Cognitive Science 19 (4):575-579.
    Cook (1995) criticizes the work of Jacobs and Kosslyn (1994) on spatial relations, shape representations, and receptive fields in neural network models on the grounds that first‐order correlations between input and output unit activities can explain the results. We reply briefly to Cook's arguments here (and in Kosslyn, Chabris, Marsolek, Jacobs & Koenig, 1995) and discuss how new simulations can confirm the importance of receptive field size as a crucial variable in the encoding of categorical and coordinate spatial relations and (...)
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    Catholic Social Teaching and Health Care - Part II.Stephen M. Krason - 1992 - Ethics and Medics 17 (2):1-3.
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    Is the Law Ethical?Stephen M. Krason - 1991 - Ethics and Medics 16 (1):1-3.
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    New Directions for U.S. Foreign Policy: Catholic Social Teaching as a Guide.Stephen M. Krason - 2005 - Catholic Social Science Review 10:339-343.
    The author argues that there are serious problems from the standpoint of Catholic social teaching in making the forcible spreading of democracy an objective of U.S. foreign policy. He argues that U.S. policy, in light of Catholic social teaching, should be prudently interventionist—but not primarily in a military sense—in promoting human rights, diffusing international tensions, and peacekeeping. Also, the author discusses such questions as shaping U.S. foreign policy in conjunction with allies and foreign aid, in light of Catholic social teaching.
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  33. A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption.Stephen M. Gardiner - 2006 - Environmental Values 15 (3):397 - 413.
    The peculiar features of the climate change problem pose substantial obstacles to our ability to make the hard choices necessary to address it. Climate change involves the convergence of a set of global, intergenerational and theoretical problems. This convergence justifies calling it a 'perfect moral storm'. One consequence of this storm is that, even if the other difficult ethical questions surrounding climate change could be answered, we might still find it difficult to act. For the storm makes us extremely vulnerable (...)
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    From philosophy of biology to social philosophy.Stephen M. Downes - 2006 - Biology and Philosophy 21 (2):299-307.
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    On the demystification of mental imagery.Stephen M. Kosslyn, Steven Pinker, George E. Smith & Steven P. Shwartz - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):535-548.
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  36. A Broader Understanding of Moral Distress.Stephen M. Campbell, Connie M. Ulrich & Christine Grady - 2016 - American Journal of Bioethics 16 (12):2-9.
    On the traditional view, moral distress arises only in cases where an individual believes she knows the morally right thing to do but fails to perform that action due to various constraints. We seek to motivate a broader understanding of moral distress. We begin by presenting six types of distress that fall outside the bounds of the traditional definition and explaining why they should be recognized as forms of moral distress. We then propose and defend a new and more expansive (...)
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  37. A Kierkegaardian reading of Jordan Peterson.Stephen M. Dunning - 2020 - In Ron Dart, Myth and meaning in Jordan Peterson: a Christian perspective. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
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    Geo-Engineering und moralische Schizophrenie: Was ist die Frage?Stephen M. Gardiner - 2015 - In Angela Kallhoff, Klimagerechtigkeit Und Klimaethik. De Gruyter. pp. 221-256.
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  39. Climate Ethics in a Dark and Dangerous Time.Stephen M. Gardiner - 2017 - Ethics 127 (2):430-465.
    A critical study of two recent books in climate ethics by Dale Jamieson (Reason in a Dark Time, Oxford 2014), and Darrel Moellendorf (The Moral and Political Challenges of Climate Change, Cambridge 2014).
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    (1 other version)The medium and the message in mental imagery: A theory.Stephen M. Kosslyn - 1981 - Psychological Review 88 (1):46-66.
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  41. Disability and the Goods of Life.Stephen M. Campbell, Sven Nyholm & Jennifer K. Walter - 2021 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 46 (6):704-728.
    The so-called Disability Paradox arises from the apparent tension between the popular view that disability leads to low well-being and the relatively high life-satisfaction reports of disabled people. Our aim in this essay is to make some progress toward dissolving this alleged paradox by exploring the relationship between disability and various “goods of life”—that is, components of a life that typically make a person’s life go better for her. We focus on four widely recognized goods of life (happiness, rewarding relationships, (...)
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    Components of high-level vision: A cognitive neuroscience analysis and accounts of neurological syndromes.Stephen M. Kosslyn, Rex A. Flynn, Jonathan B. Amsterdam & Gretchen Wang - 1990 - Cognition 34 (3):203-277.
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    The Tollgate Principles for the Governance of Geoengineering: Moving Beyond the Oxford Principles to an Ethically More Robust Approach.Stephen M. Gardiner & Augustin Fragnière - 2018 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 21 (2):143-174.
    ABSTRACTThis article offers a constructive critique of the Oxford Principles for the governance of geoengineering and proposes an alternative set of principles, the Tollgate Principles, based on that critique. Our main concern is that, despite their many merits, the Oxford Principles remain largely instrumental and dominated by procedural considerations; therefore, they fail to lay the groundwork sufficiently for the more substantive ethical debate that is needed. The article aims to address this gap by making explicit many of the important ethical (...)
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    Philosophia Christi, 20: 2, 1997 Philosophical Values and Contemporary Theories of Education: II.Stephen M. Clinton - 1997 - Philosophia Christi 20 (2).
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    Controlling growth of the wing: Vestigial integrates signals from the compartment boundaries.Stephen M. Cohen - 1996 - Bioessays 18 (11):855-858.
    In the past few years it has become apparent that the anterior/posterior (A/P) and dorsal/ventral (D/V) compartmant boundaries serve as the source of longrange signals that organize the A/P and D/V axes of the Drosophila wing. Recent work suggests that the vestigial gene may function as a nodal point through which the growth‐controlling activity of these two patterning systems is integrated(1).
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    Genetic depletion reveals an essential role for an SR protein splicing factor in vertebrate cells.Stephen M. Mount - 1997 - Bioessays 19 (3):189-192.
    SR proteins are essential for the splicing of messenger RNA precursors in vitro, where they also alter splice site selection in a concentration‐dependent manner. Although experiments involving overexpression or dominant mutations have confirmed that these proteins can influence RNA processing decisions in vivo, similar results with loss‐of‐function mutations have been lacking. Now, a system for genetic depletion of the chicken B cell line DT40 has revealed that the SR protein ASF/SF2 (alternative splicing factor/splicing factor 2) is essential for viability in (...)
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  47. The Complicated Relationship of Disability and Well-Being.Stephen M. Campbell & Joseph A. Stramondo - 2017 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 27 (2):151-184.
    It is widely assumed that disability is typically a bad thing for those who are disabled. Our purpose in this essay is to critique this view and defend a more nuanced picture of the relationship between disability and well-being. We first examine four interpretations of the above view and argue that it is false on each interpretation. We then ask whether disability is thereby a neutral trait. Our view is that most disabilities are neutral in one sense, though we cannot (...)
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  48. Ethics and global climate change.Stephen M. Gardiner - 2004 - Ethics 114 (3):555-600.
    Very few moral philosophers have written on climate change.1 This is puzzling, for several reasons. First, many politicians and policy makers claim that climate change is not only the most serious environmental problem currently facing the world, but also one of the most important international problems per se.2 Second, many of those working in other disciplines describe climate change as fundamentally an ethical issue.3.
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    Seeing and imagining in the cerebral hemispheres: A computational approach.Stephen M. Kosslyn - 1987 - Psychological Review 94 (2):148-175.
  50. On the demystification of mental imagery.Stephen M. Kosslyn, Steven Pinker, Sophie Schwartz & G. Smith - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (4):535-81.
    What might a theory of mental imagery look like, and how might one begin formulating such a theory? These are the central questions addressed in the present paper. The first section outlines the general research direction taken here and provides an overview of the empirical foundations of our theory of image representation and processing. Four issues are considered in succession, and the relevant results of experiments are presented and discussed. The second section begins with a discussion of the proper form (...)
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