According to David Benatar’s anti-natalism, the extinction of all sentient life, including that humans, is morally desirable. That claim contested in this article. The author commences by showing parallels between position and existentialist Albert Camus. He points out that, also for Camus, "death better" meant a moral sense. This followed general exposition anti-natalism. Particular attention...

Psychologists among other behavioural scientists refer to the tendency of favouring, interpreting, and searching for information that supports one’s prior beliefs as confirmation bias. Given relevance topic field, we develop a small-scale agent-based model in discrete-time investigate how employment conditions affect attitudes towards climate policies under such cognitive Our narrative resemble...

When multiple items are learned in sequential order, learning for one item tends to be disrupted by subsequently learned items. Such retrograde interference has been studied with paradigms conducted over a relatively short term. Resistance to interference is generally believed to be a measure of learning or consolidation. Here, we used a finger-tapping motor sequence paradigm to examine interfe...