The Alchemy of Equality Rights

Rights, Liability, and the Moral Equality of Combatants

According to the dominant position in the just war tradition from Augustine to Anscombe and beyond, there is no ‘‘moral equality of combatants.’’ That is, on the traditional view the combatants participating in a justified war may kill their enemy combatants participating in an unjustified war—but not vice versa (barring certain qualifications). I shall argue here, however, that in the large nu...

The alchemy of ideas.

This article presents an assessment of the power of ideas and their role in initiating change and progress. The enormous potential cascade effect is illustrated by examining the movement of Modernism in the arts. Next, the immense scope and capabilities of the modern scientific endeavor-with robotic space exploration at the scale of 10 meters at one extreme and the wonders of nanoscience at the...

The alchemy of informed consent.

The Alchemy Tutorial

Alchemy is a software tool designed for a wide range of users. Anyone with a need for a knowledge base with uncertainty will find Alchemy useful and this is the target audience of this tutorial. It assumes the reader has general knowledge of classical machine learning algorithms and tasks and is familiar with first-order and Markov logic and some probability theory. Markov logic serves as a gen...

Equality, quality and human rights: a measured response?

It is over 60 years since the mass migration of peoples from the British Commonwealth took place in order to fulfil the labour requirements of a post-war Britain. Since that time, the landscape and profile of the British population have changed irrevocably. These changes have been brought about by a combination of the continuing migration (in and out of the country) of British citizens, includi...