Abstract The Domestic Violence Act 2018 (DVA 2018) reformed Irish law on domestic abuse, providing some welcome advancements the preceding in this area (eg criminalizing coercive control). However, while represents an improvement previous legislation, there remains orientation towards private, civil responses to rather than a promotion of proactive State-led which recognize abuse as public wron...

If rape is evaluated as a serious wrong, can it also be defined as non-consensual sex (NCS)? Many do not see all instances of NCS as seriously wrongful. I argue that rape is both properly defined as NCS and properly evaluated as a serious wrong. First, I distinguish the hurtfulness of rape from its wrongfulness; secondly, I classify its harms and characterize its essential wrongfulness; thirdly...

Correction After publication of this work [1], we noted that we inadvertently included the wrong version of Table two. The Charlson scores presented in the table of the published paper did not exclude heart failure (as described in the methods). Therefore all estimates of comorbidity burden are inflated by one point. While this changes the absolute values of the comorbidity burden it does not a...

1. Bernard J. Baars: Can physics provide a theory of consciousness? 2. David J. Chalmers: Minds, machines, and mathematics 3. Solomon Feferman: Penrose's Gödelian argument 4. Stanley A. Klein: Is quantum mechanics relevant to understanding consciousness? 5. Tim Maudlin: Between the motion and the act.... 6. John McCarthy: Awareness and understanding in computer programs 7. Daryl McCullough: Can...

Background Medication errors are among the most common medical errors which are used as an indicator to assess patients’ safety in hospitals. Thereby the aim of this study was to investigate the frequency, type and causes of medication errors in children's ward at hospitals in Yazd- Iran. Materials and Methods This descriptive-analytical study was conducted during 6 months from Jan to Jun 2015....

Many philosophers ignore developments in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences that purport to challenge our ideas of free will and responsibility. The reason for this is that the challenge is often framed as a denial of the idea that we are able to act differently than we do. However, most philosophers think that the ability to do otherwise is irrelevant to responsibility and free will....