This paper explores the specific criticism of directed altruistic living organ donation that it creates a 'beauty contest' between potential recipients of organs. The notion of the beauty contest in transplantation was recently used by Neidich et al who stated that '[a]ltruism should be the guiding motivation for all donations, and when it [is], there is no place for a beauty contest'. I examin...

Since 2007, when Mexico City decriminalized abortion during the first trimester, a debate has been taking place regarding abortion and the right to conscientious objection (CO). Many people argue that, since the provision of abortions (or "legal terminations of pregnancy" as they are called under Mexico City's law) is now a statutory duty of healthcare personnel there can be no place for "consc...

Mr. Aloys Müller’s criticism of the conception of number theory as a theory that deals with meaningless signs (“number signs”) consists basically in three objections. A discussion of these objections is useful for clarifying the standpoint of intuitive number theory, and thereby also that of Hilbert’s proof theory. 1. The first objection is terminological and is directed against the use of the ...

The Epistemic Objection says that certain theories of time (like the “growing block” and “moving spotlight”) imply that it is impossible to know which time is absolutely present. Standard presentations of the Epistemic Objection are elliptical—and some of the most natural premises one might fill in to complete the argument end up leading to radical skepticism. But there is a way of filling in t...

According to conciliatory views on the significance of disagreement, it’s rational for you become less confident in your take an issue case epistemic peer’s it is different. These are intuitively appealing, but they also face a powerful objection: scenarios that involve disagreements over their own correctness, appear self-defeat and, thereby, inconsistent recommendations. This paper provides r...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Conscientious objection to abortion, clinicians' refusal to perform legal abortions because of their religious or moral beliefs, has been the subject of increasing debate among bioethicists, policymakers, and public health advocates in recent years. Conscientious objection policies are intended to balance reproductive rights and clinicians' beliefs. However, in practice...

We demonstrate that there is no ideal glass transition in a binary hard-disk mixture by explicitly constructing an exponential number of jammed packings with densities spanning the spectrum from the accepted amorphous glassy state to the phase-separated crystal. Thus the configurational entropy cannot be zero for an ideal amorphous glass, presumed distinct from the crystal in numerous theoretic...