I argue that it is possible for prospective mothers to wrong prospective fathers by bearing their child; and that lifting paternal liability for child support does not correct the wrong inflicted to fathers. It is therefore sometimes wrong for prospective mothers to bear a child, or so I argue here. I show that my argument for considering the legitimate interests of prospective fathers is not a...

In 1970 Linus Pauling claimed that vitamin C prevents and alleviates the episodes of the common cold. Pauling was correct in concluding from trials published up till then, that in general vitamin C does have biological effects on the common cold, but he was rather over-optimistic as regards the size of benefit. His quantitative conclusions were based on a single placebo-controlled trial on scho...

In “Modern Moral Philosophy,” Anscombe argued that the moral vocabulary does not correspond to any concept in Aristotelian ethics, it derives from a confused response ethics of divine command, and is literally meaningless. This essay contends was wrong. Morality corresponds Aristotle’s general sense “justice,” which complete virtue relation others. But Anscombe’s question remains: what for an a...

Eye tracking and hand motion (or mouse) tracking are complementary techniques to study the dynamics underlying human cognition. Eye tracking provides information about attention, reasoning, mental imagery, but figuring out the dynamics of cognition is hard. On the other hand, hand movement reveals the hidden states of high-level cognition as a continuous trajectory, but the detailed process is ...