What sort of death matters?

Death: What It Is and Why It Matters

Kathy Behrendt ‘A special way of being afraid: fear of death as such’ I am interested in fear of one’s own death taken as fear of non-existence, nothingness, or as it is sometimes called, fear of death as such. This form of fear has been denied or downplayed by some philosophers. Philosophy of the emotions has particular trouble in dealing with it, granting it a status that is simultaneously pa...

Definitions of death: brain death and what matters in a person

What sort of measurement is psychophysical measurement?

THE thesis of this article has both a negative and a positive aspect. The negative one holds that psychophysical measurement is not of a character closely analogous to either fundamental or derived physical measurement. Whatever loudness may be, I endeavor to establish that it probably is not a measure much like mass or energy or density. In brief, the reason is that psychophysical measures do ...

What Sort of Knowledge is Involved?

How should a global firm manage its network of R&D centres in an effective manner? Some have developed an Integrated Network model in which the R&D centres around the world are tightly integrated into a coherent whole. Others have adopted a LooselyCoupled Network model in which individual “centres of excellence” are given considerable autonomy. In this paper we argue that the way individual R&D...

How many guests, what sort of hosts?

To the Editor: Lansing et al. (1) offer an intriguing approach to the prehistory of the island of Sumba. There is at least one critical f law in the reasoning used, the assumption that the languages of Sumba form a subgroup, being all derived from a single ancestral language, Proto-Sumba. The comparative method used by the authors allows us to subgroup languages together if two criteria are met...