Vitalism Now – A Problematic

Problematic trends: then and now.

Molecular “Vitalism”

ate on very different principles. Even the simple signal-response of an allosteric enzyme is not machine-like Berkeley, California 94720 when examined in detail. Allosteric proteins have intrin-sically active and inactive conformations, which exist in some ratio in the absence of an external signal (Monod In the early nineteenth century, views on the nature of et al., 1965; Henry et al., 1997)....

The Nature of Moral Vitalism

Moral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. We introduce a scale designed to assess the belief in moral vitalism. High scorers on the scale endorse items such as “There are underlying forces of good and evil in this world.” After establishing the reliability and criterion validity of the scale (Studies 1, 2a, and 2b), we exami...

On the Vitality of Vitalism

MANY OF those who share an interest in the life sciences today, perhaps most, would agree with the claim that vitalism is obsolete. Some prominent biologists now use ‘vitalism’ as a derogatory label associated with lack of intellectual rigour, anti-scientific attitudes, and superstition (see, e.g., Dawkins, 1988). Other scientific commentators treat the term more seriously, but equally arrive a...

Your case will now be heard: sign language interpreters as problematic accommodations in legal interactions.

This paper uses data from open-ended, videotaped interviews with 12 deaf people to examine their experiences negotiating access during interactions with legal authorities. In every case, these deaf persons preferred an accommodation that involved the use of an American Sign Language interpreter, and in every case, these accommodations were problematic. Three major themes emerged from the inform...