Open Access—A Case for Intellectual Honesty

Spirituality and Intellectual Honesty An Essay

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ger-many License.

Intellectual Property and Open Systems

Arguably, the most profound issue in designing and governing cyberspace focuses on intellectual property. Is cyberspace to be created as a commons -a space belonging to and used freely by the community as a whole -or, is it to be partitioned into a multitude of proprietary closed boxes that are owned and sold, distributed, modified, and used only according to the owner’s whims? This paper will ...

Compassionate honesty.

Patients with cancer comprise 40%–100% of patients seen by those working in hospice and palliative medicine around the world. Consequently, the skills of oncologists in integrating palliative care and making appropriate referrals for hospice care have been a subject of intense interest since the inception of the field. Most are aware that oncologists routinely assist patients in making difficul...

The Case Against Intellectual Property

Honesty in Partial Logic

We propose an epistemic logic in which knowledge is fully introspective and implies truth, although truth need not imply epistemic possibility. The logic is presented in sequential format and is interpreted in a natural class of partial models, called balloon models. We examine the notions of honesty and circumscription in this logic: What is the state of an agent that ‘only knows φ’ and which ...