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Purpose: To examine the current debate over the right to die specific to the rational suicide of terminally ill patients. Methods: Literature was reviewed for information concerning historical end-of-life practices and the past acceptance of suicide. Anot

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This contribution gives an overview of current research in applying object oriented programming to scientific computing at the computational mechanics laboratory (LABMEC) at the school of civil engineering - UNICAMP. The main goal of applying object orien

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The peculiarities characterising the traditional approach used in calculational vibrational spectroscopy and the approach based on using scaled quantum mechanical force fields are considered. Some results on the determination of the equilibrium geometry o

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Science historian Ronald Numbers once remarked that the two most influential historians of science of the 20th century were Thomas Kuhn and Stephen Jay Gould. All historians are deeply familiar with Kuhn's work and influence, and most know of the remarka

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While the recent publication of the Hannah Arendt-Martin Heidegger correspondence confirms that there existed a close personal tie between these two thinkers, the relation between their philosophies is far more problematic. This article argues that Arendt

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This article explores disciplinary approaches to educational studies over the past fifty years, in particular those developed by exponents of the 'foundation disciplines' of history, philosophy, psychology and sociology. It investigates the establishmen

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The properties of Turing's famous 'universal machine' has long sustained functionalist intuitions about the nature of cognition. This paper shows that there is a logical problem with standard functionalist arguments for multiple realizability. These ar

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Training programs committed to the development of culturally sensitive family therapists must support dialogue that creates awareness of social structures promoting inequity and oppression. In order to facilitate meaningful conversations about issues of s

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In his inaugural lecture for the Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the College de France, given on 16 January 2001, Ian Hacking develops the idea of styles of reasoning (credited to LudNvik Fleck) and considers the ways in which a

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It is argued that the cultural roots within Europe are powerful links and that there exist other regions as well, powerfully stamped by Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or Arabian and other Cultures; we need a modus vivendi of cooperative cornpetition; can OR/M

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Much of ecotheology and environmental philosophy has moved deductively from theological and ethical constructs to questions of how we should relate to the natural world. Such approaches are limited in their ability to guide us toward appropriate environme

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In a certain sense, uncertainty and ignorance have been recognized in science and philosophy from the time of the Greeks. However, the mathematical sciences have been dominated by the pursuit of certainty. Therefore, experiments under simplified and ideal

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The indisputable advantage of cognitive linguistics is that it places questions of metaphor and polysemy in the broader perspective of human cognition and conceptual organization. Experientialism, a philosophical theory developed by George Lakoff and Mark

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In a modern industrialized society it was essential for humankind to be protected by a strong medical presence, to establish a uniform system for public health everywhere in that society, to make public health independent from the welfare system, and to h