In a companion paper, we proposed that cognitive debiasing is a skill essential in developing sound clinical reasoning to mitigate the incidence of diagnostic failure. We reviewed the origins of cognitive biases and some proposed mechanisms for how debiasing processes might work. In this paper, we first outline a general schema of how cognitive change occurs and the constraints that may apply. ...

In 1989 jürgen habermas opined that Carl Schmitt was unlikely to have the same ‘power of contagion in the Anglo-Saxon world’ as had Nietzsche and Heidegger. Too deep and unbridgeable was the spiritual gulf that separated the disgraced éminence grise of the ascending Axis power—publicly, at least, a virtual taboo figure within the Federal Republic—from the more liberal climes and political sensi...

is dictionary-like book comes as a useful reference book for people interested in languages sciences. ere are eighty entries alphabetically arranged in terms of the linguists’ or philosophers’ surnames. Each entry consists of three parts, with an introduction to the thinker’s essential ideas as the main body, followed by “Primary works” by that thinker, which is in turn followed by “Further r...

T^e author is a creative thinker n the forefront of British psychoanalysts with many technical and e?retical contributions to his redit and the achievement of ^'tiating a most fertile phase of ^-operation with general practi'pners. In this work he addresses lrnself primarily to his fellow jnalySts on a theme dear to him. ndeed, reviewing this book?on v>e fringe of analytical work by Jr.tUe of m...

I am honored to contribute to this volume on Lawrence Kohlberg's work. Kohlberg was always an inspirational figure for me-first, as a psychologist who saw both philosophy and psychology as necessary for an understanding of the phenomena of morality and moral development; and second, as a thinker who invited criticism of his views and who struggled to come to grips with the criticism. As a philo...

While playing against Deep Blue, Kasparov reported feeling an ’alien intelligence’ across the board: something that was undoubtedly thinking, but not in the way that any human thinker would. Kasparov feels he is defending the honor of the human race. If cloning a single sheep can put the leaders of the Western world into such a tizzy, one wonders how will they react to the prospect of inhuman m...

To speak this evening on the phenomenology of John Paul II – this is my appointed task, graciously assigned to me by Sister Judith Kathryn when she established this Edith Stein lecture series. While I am grateful for the invitation to lecture at Immaculata University, we have a slight problem! I am a theologian, not a philosopher, and the late pope himself once wrote, “A Christian thinker, and ...