What Hath God Wrought

What Hath We Wrought?

God Knows (But does God Believe?)

The standard view in epistemology is that propositional knowledge entails belief. Positive arguments are seldom given for this entailment thesis, however; instead, its truth is typically assumed. Against the entailment thesis, Myers-Schulz and Schwitzgebel (forthcoming) report that a non trivial percentage of people think that there can be propositional knowledge without belief. In this paper, ...

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life...

Myocardial structural remodeling, a progressive, often self-perpetuating process, is an important marker of progressive heart failure. Myocardial cell loss, through any number of mechanisms mediating cellular death, is an important component in its genesis.1 Traditionally, necrosis has been regarded as the pathological hallmark of myocardial cell death. However, there is accumulating evidence t...

Bowel hath no fury like a gallbladder inflamed

Gallstone ileus is a well-established phenomenon in which a large gallstone leads to mechanical small bowel obstruction. This case, however, reports the novel finding of a patient presenting with suprapubic pain and guarding caused by paralytic ileus of the small bowel and a duodenal perforation secondary to a necrotic gallbladder. It highlights the importance of distinguishing between gallston...

Experiencing God

Some philosophers claim that it is not possible for God, if God exists, to figure in the phenomenological content of experience. W.T. Stace was one such philosopher committed to this claim, but he offered nothing in the way of an argument for it. William Forgie, however, has argued that on the assumption of two putatively plausible theses about the phenomenology of experience, phenomenologicall...