This paper fortifies and defends the so called Sufficiency Argument (SA) against Classical Invariantism. In Sect. 2, I explain the version of the SA formulated but then rejected by Brown (2008a). In Sect. 3, I show how cases described by Hawthorne (2004), Brown (2008b), and Lackey (forthcoming) threaten to undermine one or the other of the SA’s least secure premises. In Sect. 4, I buttress one ...

cardiac surgery at Bristol University, tried to get complex heart surgery on children at Bristol stopped because “we were no good at this kind of surgery,” he told the inquiry into Bristol paediatric cardiac surgery services last week. It had been “a mistake” on his part not to have passed on to the cardiac team at Bristol an offer from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London to do the more comp...

psychoanalysts since sigmund freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while slavoj žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. in this essay, i dig into these theories to uncover traces of lutheran interpretations of paul’s words on the jewish l...

griseofulvin is a well-known, effective, systemic antifungal agent which has not been used topically in the current clinical practice. in order to treat the common superficial fungal infection of tinea versicolor, a new topical formulation of griseofulvin (1%) was tried in 105 patients during a double blind study and its efficacy compared with placebo (its vehicle) and clotrimazol (1%) solution...

the social realism is a significant literary school. one may notice this school in various forms and works in the world literature. its source and origin can be traced in the marxism philosophy which has influenced the eastern european peoples. many works, such as the novels, poems, and plays have been formed on the basis of this school in russia and the third world countries. najib mahfuz is o...