A Review of Elinor Mason’s Ways to be Blameworthy

Eight Ways to be a Colonizer; Two Ways to be an Invader: A Pro- posed Nomenclature Scheme for Invasion Ecology

Complex networks: two ways to be robust?

Carlos J. Melián* and Jordi Bascompte Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC Apdo. 1056, E-41013 Sevilla, Spain *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Recent studies of biological networks have focused on the distribution of the number of links per node. However, the connectivity distribution does not uncover all the complexity of their topology. Here, we a...

Should Employers Be Permitted not to Hire Smokers? A Review of US Legal Provisions

Background Increasingly, healthcare and non-healthcare employers prohibit or penalize the use of tobacco products among current and new employees in the United States. Despite this trend, and for a range of different reasons, around half of states currently legally protect employees from being denied positions, or having employment contracts terminated, due to tobacco use.   Methods We undertoo...

Ways Things Can't Be

Possible worlds semantics has been very useful in modelling not only the intensionality of necessity and possibility, future and past. It has also found its place in modelling the intentionality of propositional attitudes like belief and knowledge. There is something fruitful in analysing a belief as a set of possible worlds. The belief is the set of possible worlds in which the belief is true....

Benefiting from misfortune: when harmless actions are judged to be morally blameworthy.

Dominant theories of moral blame require an individual to have caused or intended harm. However, the current four studies demonstrate cases where no harm is caused or intended, yet individuals are nonetheless deemed worthy of blame. Specifically, individuals are judged to be blameworthy when they engage in actions that enable them to benefit from another's misfortune (e.g., betting that a compa...