In “Why Abortion is Immoral,” Don Marquis argues that a sufficient condition for the wrongness of killing an adult is the victim’s loss of a valuable future like ours. Our future is valuable because it is full of valuable possibilities. Because the wrongness of killing an adult is due to the privation of future possibilities, and fetuses have future possibilities, Marquis concludes that killing...

Over the last 30 years, those involved in environmental education have gradually become aware of the richness and breadth of the educational project they have contributed to build. They have realised that the environment is not merely a subject to be studied or a theme to be analysed among others; nor is it only the necessary constraint of a development we want to be sustainable. The weft of th...

During the previous decade web-based Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) has become general part of learning and curriculum. One of the most prominent virtual worlds is Second Life, because of dimensionless opportunities that result out of user created content. Many institutions such as universities, colleges and libraries have entered this 3D environment to explore its possibilities. As the Sec...