This paper is part of a larger project whose overall aim is to consider the relationship between being, on one hand, and logos and language on the other. For this project, it is indispensible to consider Heidegger‟s investigation into the question of being (both the question of the “meaning of being” in Being and Time and, later, what he will call the “grounding question,” the question of the h...

How psychopaths and their capacity for moral action are viewed is not only philosophically interesting but is also important and relevant for policy. The philosophical discussion of psychopathy has focussed upon the psychological faculties that are prerequisites for moral responsibility and empirical findings regarding psychopathy that are relevant to philosophical accounts of moral understandi...

Bodies matter as our experience of them is the basis both for social life and also for much medical and social research. There has been a spectacular increase in academic research on the body in the last twenty years or so. This paper-although a review of three ethnographic studies on the seemingly disparate and narrow fields of the embodiment of working class experience, boxing, and ballet-ill...

Assurance cases provide a structured method of explaining why a system has some desired property, for example, that the system is safe. But there is no agreed approach for explaining what degree of confidence one should have in the conclusions of such a case. This report defines a new concept, eliminative argumentation, that provides a philosophically grounded basis for assessing how much confi...

In the UK, the General Medical Council's new guidance on confidentiality restates the professional duty for doctors to regard personal information revealed to them as confidential. Such information can be shared only with the patient's explicit consent--the exceptions to this are narrowly defined. We believe the guidance does not adequately address the reality of confidentiality in modern pract...

I n his interesting paper Matti Häyry identifies a new disease ‘‘prereproductive stress syndrome’’ as well as a cure for the condition in the form of philosophically based counselling that the desire for having a child is irrational. Few now hold the belief that an engagement with philosophy has strong therapeutic effects (even fewer when they have met real life philosophers), but this in itsel...

Introduction Corporate codes of ethics are one of several influenc es on business ethics within and across cultures. In a model that goes beyond philosophically-based ethics, Stajkovic and Luthans (1 997) use social-cognitive theory as a springboard to identify factors influe ncing business ethics standards and conduct. They propose that a person’s perception of ethical sta ndards and subsequen...

In his provocative article for this issue, Geoffrey Hellman has astutely attacked the philosophical grounds for predicativity from several angles. Though I am not now nor never have been a predicativist, I have to admit to being a sympathizer since I am an avowed anti-platonist, at least insofar as set theory is concerned, and I grant the natural numbers a position of primacy in our mathematica...

In recent years, analytic philosophy has gained a new historical self-consciousness. A considerable amount of work, both historically informed and philosophically subtle, is being done now on its origins and development. This is especially true for early analytic philosophy (roughly 1880-1930) and the corresponding works of Frege, Russell, Moore, and Wittgenstein. In this collection, fifteen pr...