The "four principles" of bioethics lack any reference to medicine as a special domain of human practice. It is argued that seeing medicine as one profession among many others goes against our very expectations from medicine. Clinical medicine is defined as the realm of practice that leads people along verges of bodily and existential catastrophe in ways that accommodate personal autonomy and pe...

It is often assumed by friends and foes alike of intelligent design that a likelihood approach to design inferences will require evidence regarding the specific motives and abilities of any hypothetical designer. Elliott Sober, like Venn before him, indicates that this information is unavailable when the designer is not human (or at least finite) and concludes that there is no good argument for...

AND VAGUE LANGUAGE? Today most conservative originalists agree with me that we are not bound by original expected applications, only by original meaning. But the way they cash out original meaning often leads them to model it fairly closely on original expected applications—which includes not only how specific cases would be decided, but also how people at the time of adoption would have articu...