Telling what we know: describing inner experience.

Spotting Lies: Can Humans Learn to Do Better?

Though cynicism may seem rampant, the empirical fact is that most people seem to believe most of what they hear most of the time. I have seen this repeatedly in the studies my colleagues and I have conducted on the detection of deception.' To determine whether people can separate truths from lies, we show them videotapes we have made of people we know to be lying or telling the truth. The topic...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.

Second-Hand Knowledge*

1 . The Importance of Testimony We citizens of the 2lSt century live in a world where division of epistemic labour rules. Most of what we know we learned from the spoken or written word of others, and we depend in endless practical ways on the technological fruits of the dispersed knowledge of others-of which we often know almost nothing-in virtually every moment of our lives. Interest has been...

An Investigation of Physicians’ Attitudes to Disclosure of Bad News to Patients in the City of Qom

Background and Objectives: Most physicians believe that telling lies and withholding the truth is not permissible. However, it appears that holding the phenomenon telling the truth to be absolute or unconditional is not acceptable either. This study was conducted to examine Qom City physicians’ attitudes with regard to revealing the influential news to patients. Methods: This was a des...