A Critical Look at Risk Assessments for Global Catastrophes

a critical look at kant’s ethics

kant’s ethical theory is one the most important theories in philosophy of ethics, which has always attracted the attention of the commentators and critics. although it has many positive points, there are some objections to this theory just as to any other human theory. in this article, it is attempted to point out the critiques that seem to have been leveled against kant’s ethics. some of these...

A CRITICAL LOOK ANIMAL AT EXPERIMENTATION A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation

A Critical Look at Self-Dual Codes∗

We investigate self-dual codes from a structural point of view. In particular, we study properties of critical indecomposable codes which appear in the spectrum of a self-dual code. As an application of the results we obtain, we revisit the study of self-dual codes of dimension at most 10.

A Critical Look at Knowledge Creation

Knowledge creation and creativity are important topics and have therefore received much attention in both the CSCW and other research communities. By introducing and examining the use of a creativity-enhancing prototype we encountered unnoticed, and thus unsolved, problems regarding intellectual property rights and feasible reward mechanisms. We argue in favour of a more critical look at knowle...

A critical look at nursing observations.

Our experience has suggested that not only do nurses on hospital wards waste time making too many unnecessary clinical observations, but that it is very difficult to persuade them to modify the pattern of their practice. We therefore conducted a survey by questionnaire among trained nurses in one health district of their everyday ward practice and attitudes to clinical observations. This showed...