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edited by Ronald Cole-Turner
Design and Destiny Cole-Turner, editor
Design and Destiny
Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human
Germline Modifi cation
edited by Ronald Cole-Turner
The MIT ... to humanity. They draw upon the resources of traditional
Judaism and Christianity to refl ect on the meaning and destiny of human
life, the val...
... e.g., the subparts of an arithmetic operation are the
rator (short for “operator”) and two rands (short for “operands”), while the
subexpressions of the conditional expression are the test expression, ... expressions may be “wired together.” For instance, the test com-
ponent of a conditional must be a boolean expression, while the then and else
components must be numerical...
... cumulative
evolution is unlikely to occur.
Lewontin’s condition of quasi-independence expresses the same obser-
vation. The condition of continuity adds the requirement that small mu-
tations to the phenotype ... it lodged between the two
pieces, setting up the required connection. I claim that the screw has a function,
the function of making the connection. But its having t...
... activation of all the units in parallel. The
updated activation of unit is calculated on the basis of its
current activation, the weights on links to other units, and
the activation of the units ... that encompasses constraint-satisfaction
theories of hypothesis evaluation, analogical mapping, dis-
course comprehension, impression formation, and so on.
Previously these t...
... on there. I have the sensation of pain.
The question is not whether their visual sensations and my
pain sensation are sensations of the same thing. It is rather
whether my sensation itself, the ... sensations, quite unlike.
The sensations are not one and the same; it is what they
are sensations of that is one and the same. Suppose Arthur
and Raquel are in my brain havi...
... primarily on the consequences of actions (as
they relate to the production of pleasure and the reduction of pain),
deontology
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concentrates on what duties we owe to one another (and, in
its most ... and
the sciences by the two non-reductive roadblocks of the naturalistic fal-
lacy and the open-question argument. However, both of these positions
rely upon the analyti...
... destruc-
tions (or creations). There is only world-stuff, on the one
hand, and on the other hand us and our conventions of
individuation.
But let us ask: why are the conventions of ours, in virtue
of ... conventions of individuation plural? Is there nonconven-
tional or preconventional individuation in the world? If so,
our conventions of individuation are not the sole grou...
... whether they are also con-
scious in the second sense, that is, whether one is also aware of them, or
whether one must deny this and consequently admit the existence of non-
conscious (or unconscious) ... to conceptualize
this distinction. Baker consequently argues that self-awareness presupposes
the possession of a first-person concept. One is self-conscious only from the
moment one...
... in
this: on the one hand, citizens can make appropriate use of their public
autonomy only if, on the basis of their equally protected private autonomy,
they are sufficiently independent; on the other ... cope with the demands of the
globalized economy, the offensive variant advocates the construction
of supranational political institutions with the power and legitimacy...
... So the truth of water(3) is a necessary condition of my even being
able to think water(1), and this triggers the Second Limitation Princi-
ple.
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The early version of the Second Limitation Principle ... Epistemic warrant cannot be
transmitted from the premises of a valid argument to its conclusion if,
for one of the premises, the truth of the conclusion is a precondition of...