What Justifies Our Bias Toward the Future?

Navigating toward our future : Fourth report

In this fourth report of the Navigator Network notable trends in emerging areas of science and technology and their associated policy implications include: • Recognition of the importance of climate change and the limits of growth more generally continue to have a wide impact on scientific, technological and policy development. • Energy security concerns continue to drive renewable energy resea...

Our adolescents--our future.

Commitment to psychiatric care: what justifies broader criteria for minors?

Background Commitment to psychiatric care is in Finland allowed for minors in broader terms than for adults. Minors can be committed to and detained in involuntary psychiatric treatment if they suffer from severe mental disorder and fullfil the additional commitment criteria defined in the Mental Health Act. Adults can be committed to involuntary psychiatric care only if they are mentally ill (...

The 2022 GP: our profession, our patients, our future.

For the last decade or two general practice, indeed medicine in general, has been manufacturing ‘tools’ as if a 21st century industrial revolution was under way. Am I alone in my distaste and negative reactions, feeling that in most cases the word ‘tool’ is now used in a most ignorant and inappropriate way? Most patients know exactly what tools are, and use them to good effect in the real world...

On what inferentially justifies what: the vices of reliabilism and proper functionalism

Yet there are restrictions: a justified belief can inferentially justify a belief in some propositions but not others. Suppose I justifiably believe (J) that Jones ate pizza last night. My justified belief in J can, by itself, inferentially justify me in believing (S) that someone ate pizza last night. 2 Maybe I won’t be justified in believing S because I have a defeater. But S is at least a ca...