Intelligence, Meaning, Egoism: Dangerous Connections

Egoism, Psychological Egoism and Ethical Egoism

Egoism The term “egoism” is ordinarily used to mean “exclusive concern with satisfying one’s own desires, getting what one wants.” Dictionaries tend to support this. They call “egoism”, for instance, “1. selfishness; self-interest. 2. conceit.” The term “egotist” is often a substitute, although it’s defined differently, for example, as “excessive reference to oneself.” The ego is the self. But ...

Dangerous connections: healthcare community tackles tubing risks.

In a heart-wrenching article last year, The New York Times called public attention to a patient safety risk that has festered for years: tubing misconnections. The front-page story chroni-cled the death of a pregnant woman and her unborn daughter for a mistake that never should have happened. Hospitalized for complications to her pregnancy, the woman's feeding tube was mistakenly coupled with a...

Helping Intelligence Analysts Make Connections

Discovering latent connections between seemingly unconnected documents and constructing “stories” from scattered pieces of evidence are staple tasks in intelligence analysis. We have worked with government intelligence analysts to understand the strategies they use to make connections. Beyond techniques like clustering that aim to provide an initial broad summary of large document collections, ...

Making form-meaning connections while reading

This study was a qualitative exploration of the effect of multiple-choice glosses and periodic second language (L2) text reconstruction on lexical acquisition. L2 readers of German engaged in a think-aloud procedure while reading a short text and retelling its content in German after each of four short sections. In each section, four unfamiliar target words (TWs) were embedded. Half of the part...

Psychological Egoism