Reflections of the social contract Rousseau as our contemporary philosopher

Cost of dental education, student indebtedness, and our social contract.

1479 One of the most pressing concerns for dental students today is educational debt. Dental school graduates have among the highest amounts of student debt in the nation. Over the last decade, student indebtedness has increased much more quickly than inflation, a rise that is directly related to higher tuition and fees. In 2013, dental students overall incurred an average debt of $241,000, acc...

Reflections on Work Addiction as a Symptom of Contemporary Social Unrest

At present and based on the studies and scientific literature consulted we can say that the addiction to work is part of this set of new addictions. That in psychological terms is a psychological addiction of the cognitive-behavioral order. In other words behavioral/emotional, which unlike chemical addiction to a drug, the addiction to work does not have a “substance”. For this reason, when we ...

Newton as Philosopher

The error statistical philosopher as normative naturalist

We argue for a naturalistic account for appraising scientific methods that carries non-trivial normative force. We develop our approach by comparison with Laudan’s (American Philosophical Quarterly 24:19–31, 1987, Philosophy of Science 57:20–33, 1990) “normative naturalism” based on correlating means (various scientific methods) with ends (e.g., reliability). We argue that such a meta-methodolo...

Agency, Cyberspace, and Social Contract

The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...