Naturalizing Phenomenology: A Must Have?

Prescribing tests must have curriculum support

Correspondence: Thomas I Lemon School of Medicine, Cardiff University, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XW, Wales Email [email protected] Dear Editor Gordon, Catchpole and Baker have discussed and investigated a very interesting, currently relevant, subject in medical education; particularly with the introduction of the prescribing test for undergraduates trialled in the U...

Naturalizing Subjective Character

When I have a conscious experience of the sky, there is a bluish way it is like for me to have that experience. We may distinguish two aspects of this “bluish way it is like for me”: (i) the bluish aspect and (ii) the for-me aspect. Let us call the bluish aspect of the experience its qualitative character and the for-me aspect its subjective character. What is this elusive for-me-ness, or subje...

Dairy Cattle Must Have Good Forage

Naturalizing Information

Certain definitions of information can be seen to be compatible with each other if their relationships are properly understood as referring to different levels of organization in a subsumptive hierarchy. The resulting hierarchy, with thermodynamics subsuming information theory, and that in turn subsuming semiotics, amounts to a naturalizing of the information concept.

Must We Value Life to Have a Right to It?

In her recent article "Death, Mis­­ fortune, and Species Inequality,"l Ruth Cigman gives clear, careful expression to an argument which seems well on its way to becomi ng a classic among opponents of animal rights. 2 Cigman's argument runs as follows: A right to X entails the right to be protected against certain actions which will result in the misfortune, or possible misfortu ne, of not-X. A ...