Frequently, philosophers use examples to make their ideas clearer readers. Later, commentators take these and go beyond the philosophers’ original intentions. This doubtless occurs because example is so well-chosen that it prompts questions or problems did not concern example’s originator at time. While may serve its context well, however, cannot respond for which was devised. case with famous ...

Abstract In this article I examine the moral dimensions of gender-affirmation. argue that value gender-affirmation is rooted in what Iris Murdoch called loving attention. Loving attention central to because such affirmation otherwise too fragile or insincere have value. Moral reasons engage acts gender-affirm derive from commitment give and express trans people as a way challenging their margin...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 337 7 SEPTEMBER 2012 1141 COVER Artist’s conception of the complex network of relationships between disease and the human genome. Hundreds of diseases and traits (represented by colored dots) have been mapped to specifi c chromosomal positions in the genome. Most disease-associated genetic variants fall outside of protein-coding genes, instead affecting the genome...