Ethical questions have no moral answers Evidence that "ethic" based on "metaphysical foundations"

Complex Questions Rarely Have Simple Answers.

The subject of this monograph—sex differences in science and mathematics—is controversial. Although a topic of discussion for years, this issue was brought to public attention again in 2005 by the much-quoted comments of Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, suggesting that at least part of the reason for the dearth of women at the top in math and science professions is a lack...

Natural Language Processing: many questions, no answers

Computational Linguistics, as a subfield of Linguistics, or Natural Language Processing (NLP), as a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (two research areas that nowadays can be safely considered as merged) concentrate on the “study of computer systems for understanding and generating natural language” [10], in order to develop “a computational theory of language, using the notions of algorithms...

Generating Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions

An indirect answer to! a Yes-No question conversationally implicates the speaker's evaluation of the truth of the questioned proposition. We present the approach to generation used in our implemented system for generating and interpret~ing indirect answers to Yes-No questions in English. Generation of a discourse plan is performed in two phases: content planning and plan pruning. During content...

Inquire Biology: A Textbook that Answers Questions

ing challenge. In a typical advanced high school or introductory college biology course, a student is expected to learn about 5000 concepts and several hundred thousand new relationships among them.1 Science textbooks are difficult to read and yet there are few alternative resources for study. Despite the great need for science graduates, too few students are willing to study science and many d...

Evidence-based family planning: finding answers to clinical questions.

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2003: 29(2) Clinical scenario A busy family planning clinic (FPC) finally draws to a close, during which you demonstrated the insertion of several intrauterine devices (IUDs) to a general practitioner (GP) registrar and also supervised him inserting an IUD for the first time. Over coffee at the end of the session he tells you that his GP t...

Ethical issues in intensive care: more questions than answers.