Loving the vacuum

The ethics of loving care.

DNA or loving care?

to five contestants might be involved in child-custody conflicts. As cases of ART in which third parties are involved become more common, the issue of what constitutes a parent is now, perhaps more than ever, highly contested. There is no consensus on what parents are or what they should be. At the heart of the issue are at least two important questions. First, what is the relative importance a...

Loving-kindness brings loving-kindness: the impact of Buddhism on cognitive self-other integration.

Common wisdom has it that Buddhism enhances compassion and self-other integration. We put this assumption to empirical test by comparing practicing Taiwanese Buddhists with well-matched atheists. Buddhists showed more evidence of self-other integration in the social Simon task, which assesses the degree to which people co-represent the actions of a coactor. This suggests that self-other integra...

Thought-Experiment: On Loving The Oppressors

Loving Children: The Political Economy of Design

We are shocked when violence erupts in schoolyards or when a six year-old child kills another in cold blood. But the headlines, which sensationalize such tragedies, reveal only the tip of what appears to be a larger problem that, given our present priorities, will only intensify. Youthful violence is symptomatic of something much bigger evident in diffuse anger, despair, apathy, the erosion of ...