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Open AccessWeight change following diagnosis with psychosis: a retrospective cohort study in Greater Manchester, UK
Weight gain in the months/years after diagnosis/treatment of severe enduring mental illness (SMI) is a major predictor of future diabetes, dysmetabolic profile and increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases. T...
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Open AccessDorr on the language of ontology
In the ‘ordinary business of life’, everyone makes claims about what there is. For instance, we say things like: ‘There are some beautiful chairs in my favourite furniture shop’. Within the context of philosop...
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Agnosticism about Ontology
Let ‘ontological realism’ be the view that ontological issues are intelligible, that they are substantial, and that they are resolvable. Different philosophers use the phrase ‘ontological realism’ in different...
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Introduction and Historical Overview
Philosophy is highly speculative. Yet not anything goes in philosophy: it is not a matter of thinking or saying whatever takes your fancy. Philosophers have standards to keep. They seek to evaluate and grade t...
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Deferentialism
There is a recent and growing trend in philosophy that involves deferring to the claims of certain disciplines outside of philosophy, such as mathematics, the natural sciences, and linguistics. According to th...
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Childbirth experiences of women with obstetric fistula in Tanzania and Uganda and their implications for fistula program development
Authors sought evidence from the testimonies of women living with fistula regarding local risk factors for fistula and the impact of fistula on women's lives.
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Truth and being
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In defence of error theory
Many contemporary philosophers rate error theories poorly. We identify the arguments these philosophers invoke, and expose their deficiencies. We thereby show that the prospects for error theory have been syst...
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Applications of a Combined Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Quartz Microbalance
It has recently become possible to carry out sliding friction measurements of adsorbed monolayers by means of a quartz crystal microbalance technique. These ongoing studies have revealed a range of application...