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Observer Dependent Physicalism: A New Argument for Reductive Physicalism and for Scientific Realism
Reductive physicalism is a minority view in contemporary philosophy as well as in science, and therefore arguments for endorsing it often amount to...
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Artificial Agents and Their Moral Nature
Artificial agents, particularly but not only those in the infosphere Floridi (Information—a very short introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford,...
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Precision medicine and the fragmentation of solidarity (and justice)
Solidarity is a fundamental social value in many European countries, though its precise practical and theoretical meaning is disputed. In a health...
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The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis of Mental Disorder: Implications for the Social Sciences and Management Practice
Psychiatry has long been criticized for being a pseudoscientific discipline masquerading as a genuine medical field because the meaning of its...
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Causal Connections Between Anorexia Nervosa and Delusional Beliefs
Numerous studies of the beliefs of people with anorexia nervosa (AN) suggest that a subset of such individuals may experience delusions. We first...
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Predictive processing and anti-representationalism
Many philosophers claim that the neurocomputational framework of predictive processing entails a globally inferentialist and representationalist view...
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Methodological Individualism (MI) and Methodological Collectivism (MC) in the Era of Postwar American Structural-Functionalism (SF)
MI and MC denote two different epistemological interpretations of empirical units deployed in Sociological studies, across theoretical, substantive,...
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The Right to Health Care
The present chapters argues that there is a rightRight to health careHealth care, that this rightRight is grounded in the fundamental principles of...
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Algorithmic Political Bias in Artificial Intelligence Systems
Some artificial intelligence (AI) systems can display algorithmic bias, i.e. they may produce outputs that unfairly discriminate against people based...
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Mind-Body Entanglement and Healing
The biomedical model of health exclusively focuses on the body’s dysfunctions, or even on the dysfunctioning of a single organ or a single genetic...
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Clinical ethics consultations: a sco** review of reported outcomes
BackgroundClinical ethics consultations (CEC) can be complex interventions, involving multiple methods, stakeholders, and competing ethical values....
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“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology
The aim of this paper is to elucidate the vital meaning and strategic role that nutrition holds in Claude Bernard’s “biological philosophy”, in the...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter gives an overview of the context in which the book was written, and goes through the central themes being addressed. The...
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Internet, the Encyclopedic Competence, and the Google Effect
The basis of this study is the encyclopedic model of culture by Umberto Eco[aut]Eco, Umberto. Even before I turned my interest towards...
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Scientific, Philosophical, and Psychological Views of the Purpose of Life
In Chapter 2, we look at the purpose of life from the scientific viewpoint. The approach involves studying how this concept can be demarcated for...
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Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia
BackgroundThere has been no in-depth research of public attitudes on withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted...
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Uncovering Digital Platforms’ Ethics and Politics: The Case of Airbnb
The paper deploys the disclosive computer ethics (DCE) approach to reconstruct the ethics and politics of one of the sharing economy’s...
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Arguing About “COVID”: Metalinguistic Arguments on What Counts as a “COVID-19 Death”
In this contribution, we explore the plausibility and consequences of treating arguments over what counts as a COVID-19 death as metalinguistic...
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Analyzing the Dynamics Between Theory of Mind, Speech Disorders, and Brain Rewiring in Aphasia
Much has been discussed about the Theory of Mind (ToM) and language. Some authors suggest that activating one enlightens the other, while others view...
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Perceptions of Ethicality: The Role of Attire Style, Attire Appropriateness, and Context
Professional attire has traditionally been regarded as a sign of ethicality. However, recent trends towards a more casual workplace may have altered...
