the mit press design and destiny jewish and christian perspectives on human germline modification mar 2008
the mit press design and destiny jewish and christian perspectives on human germline modification mar 2008
... Modificationedited by Ronald Cole-Turner Design and Destiny Cole-Turner, editor Design and Destiny Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modifi cationedited 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 values and principles that guide human behavior, and ... and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modifi cationJudaism and Germline Modifi cation 31technology and the context of modern medical health care. How tradi-tions...
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the mit press design concepts in programming languages aug 2008
... 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 elsecomponents must be numerical expressions.A specification ... > and < in the first example), keywords (then, else, and endif delimit the test, then, and else parts of the first conditional), orexplicit matched delimiter pairs (such as the parentheses and...
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the mit press organisms and artifacts design in nature and elsewhere apr 2004
... cumulativeevolution 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 twopieces, setting up the required connection. I claim that the screw has a function, the function of making the connection. But its having that function cannot begrounded ... whatever option we choose, the failure of biological processesto yield a function concept that closely matches the connotations of arti-fact functions puts limits on the burdens such a concept can...
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the mit press coherence in thought and action nov 2000
... activation of all the units in parallel. The updated activation of unit is calculated on the basis of itscurrent activation, the weights on links to other units, and the activation of the units ... that encompasses constraint-satisfactiontheories of hypothesis evaluation, analogical mapping, dis-course comprehension, impression formation, and so on. Previously these theories shared an ... problem. The elements in impression forma-tion are the various characteristics that can be applied topeople; the positive constraints come from correlationsamong the characteristics; and the negative...
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the mit press knowledge possibility and consciousness apr 2001
... on there. I have the sensation of pain. The question is not whether their visual sensations and mypain sensation are sensations of the same thing. It is ratherwhether my sensation itself, the ... sensations, quite unlike. The sensations are not one and the same; it is what theyare sensations of that is one and the same. Suppose Arthur and Raquel are in my brain having visual sensations of the various ... Experience and Neo-Dualism 21contents” of the thoughts or statements. These contents arenot merely conditions on the subject matter but conditions on the utterances or thoughts themselves....
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the mit press natural ethical facts evolution connectionism and moral cognition oct 2003
... primarily on the consequences of actions (asthey relate to the production of pleasure and the reduction of pain),deontology6concentrates on what duties we owe to one another (and, inits most ... and the sciences by the two non-reductive roadblocks of the naturalistic fal-lacy and the open-question argument. However, both of these positionsrely upon the analytic/synthetic distinction ... both concep-tions of function from evolutionary biology and connectionist concep-tions of thought from cognitive science. The rough structure of the bookfollows from the unfolding of this admittedly...
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the mit press real natures and familiar objects apr 2004
... destruc-tions (or creations). There is only world-stuff, on the onehand, and on the other hand us and our conventions of individuation.But let us ask: why are the conventions of ours, in virtueof ... conventions of individuation plural? Is there nonconven-tional or preconventional individuation in the world? If so,our conventions of individuation are not the sole ground of“necessities,” ... ourconventions of individuation, and (presumably) the utter-ances and thoughts that implement these conventions. Ourmaking these utterances and having these thoughts createin us the impression...
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the mit press subjectivity and selfhood investigating the first-person perspective jan 2006
... whether they are also con-scious in the second sense, that is, whether one is also aware of them, orwhether one must deny this and consequently admit the existence of non-conscious (or unconscious) ... to conceptualizethis distinction. Baker consequently argues that self-awareness presupposes the possession of a first-person concept. One is self-conscious only from the moment one can conceive ... readily admits, however, that the relation between the higher-order state and the first-order state is of a rather special kind. On the one hand, we regard mental states as being conscious only if...
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the mit press global justice and transnational politics apr 2002
... inthis: on the one hand, citizens can make appropriate use of their publicautonomy 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 constructionof supranational political institutions with the power and legitimacyto shape the environment in ... Justice and Transnational PoliticsEssays on the Moral and Political Challenges of Globalizationedited by Pablo De Greiff and Ciaran Cronin The MIT Press Cambridge, MassachusettsLondon, EnglandSecond,...
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the mit press new essays on semantic externalism and self-knowledge jun 2003
... So the truth of water(3) is a necessary condition of my even beingable to think water(1), and this triggers the Second Limitation Princi-ple.10 The early version of the Second Limitation Principle ... Epistemic warrant cannot betransmitted from the premises of a valid argument to its conclusion if,for one of the premises, the truth of the conclusion is a precondition ofour warrant for that premise ... acknowledging this pair of constraints on the process of revision, we honor the intuition of nonnegotiability con-cerning our engagement in folk-psychological practice.In response to the worry about eliminativism,...
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