OBJECTIONS TO HUMORAL PATHOLOGY.

Objections to hospital philosophers.

Like morally sensitive hospital staff, philosophers resist routine simplification of morally complex cases. Like hospital clergy, they favour reflective and principled decision-making. Like hospital lawyers, they refine and extend the language we use to formulate and defend our complex decisions. But hospital philosophers are not redundant: they have a wider range of principles and categories a...

Conscientious objections to reform.

The Experimental Basis of Classical Humoral Pathology

The foundation of the present new journal "CLINICAL HEMORHEOLOGY" best testifies the fact that rheological thinking is gaining ground in biology, medicine and surgery. The biomedical community, after having long neglected mechanical facts in general, and biorheological peculiarities in detail, is beginning to appreciate the theoretical and practical relevance of biorheology as a discipline devo...

Dutch Objections to Evolutionary Ethics

While strolling the streets of Amsterdam, Sidney Smith, the renowned editor of the Edinburgh Review, called the attention of his companion to two Dutch housewives who were leaning out of their windows and arguing with one another across the narrow alley that separated their houses. Smith remarked to his companion that the two women would never agree. His friend thought the seasoned editor had i...

Objections to Computationalism. A Short Survey

In this paper, I review the objections against the claim that brains are computers, or, to be precise, informationprocessing mechanisms. By showing that practically all the popular objections are based on uncharitable (or simply incorrect) interpretations of the claim, I argue that the claim is likely to be true, relevant to contemporary cognitive (neuro)science, and non-trivial.