Has the Genomic Revolution Failed?

Understanding the Failed Welfare Revolution

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Understanding the Failed Welfare Revolution

In the 1960s, a new idea for combating poverty emerged that promised a revolutionary change for American social welfare policy. Though the idea had a complex history, one of its main justifications was articulated by a commis­ sion appointed by President Johnson to evaluate the nation’s antipoverty pro­ grams. The commission, which was made up primarily of business leaders and economists, issue...

Nurses and the genomic revolution.

PURPOSE To increase nurses' genetics and genomics literacy through a series of articles focused on genomic research discoveries and their importance for nursing education, practice, policy, and research. ORGANIZING FRAMEWORK "Genomics for Health " is one of three themes, along with genomes to biology and genomes to society, emanating from applications of the Human Genome Project (HGP). METH...

Digital Dentistry: The Revolution has Begun

How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science

We analytic philosophers have signally failed our colleagues in cognitive science. We have done that by not sharing central lessons about the nature of concepts, concept-use, and conceptual content that have been entrusted to our care and feeding for more than a century. I take it that analytic philosophy began with the birth of the new logic that Gottlob Frege introduced in his seminal 1879 Be...