Bio-Weapons Testing: History, Ethics, and Values

On the Ethics of Nuclear Weapons

Today’s international law regime leaves little room for lawful use of nuclear weapons.1 At the same time, there is no prohibition of these weapons per se.2 This situation distinguishes them from biological and chemical weapons, which are subject to comprehensive bans under the 1972 Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, respectively. The ‘legal ga...

The Ethics (Ethos) of History

این مقاله در پی ارائه تحلیل انتقادی گفته­های هایدگر در «نامه­ای در باب اومانیسم» است که در آن اخلاق را به ethos (روح ملی) و در نهایت به زمان و تاریخ ربط می­دهد. مطلب اصلی در این تحلیل عبارت هراکلیتوس یعنی ēthos anthrōpōi daimōn است که هایدگر با تکیه بر آن ادعا می­کند که زندگی بشر (ethos) از رویداد appropriation (Ereignis) که تقدیر تاریخی ما را رقم می­زند جدایی­ناپذیر است. با تحلیل بیشتر از طریق...

Testing Exponentiality Based on Record Values

We introduce a goodness of fit test for exponentiality based on record values. The critical points and powers for some alternatives are obtained by simulation.

Ethics, bio-ethics and environment in healing designs.

ion, and must sometimes appear to be an unaffordable luxury to a fair portion of the world’s population, irrespective of ideology, tradition, or social status. And yet, while the temptation is to exhort scientific enquiry and design – push on, push as hard, as fast and as far as you can we are obliged also to pause, Ethics, Bio-Ethics and Environment in Healing Designs ....... African Journal o...

Mortality and cancer from chemical weapons testing