A Severed Text: Artist Carol Sommer discusses her responses to Iris Murdoch's Novels with Frances White

Off Her Trolley ? Frances Kamm and the Metaphysics of Morality

Consider as many case-based judgments of yours as prove necessary. Do not ignore some case-based judgments, assuming they are errors, just because they conflict with simple or intuitively plausible principles that account for some subset of your case-based judgments. Work on the assumption that a different principle can account for all of the judgments. Be prepared to be surprised at what this ...

A Conversation with Carol Robinson

Dame Carol Robinson, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, has excelled at pushing electrospray mass spectrometry to places thought impossible. With the technique, which analyzes aerosolized droplets of samples, she has studied the structure and function of membrane proteinsmolecules that are present in all cells and are popular drug targets. Katharine Sanderson recently met with Robins...

Thanks to Carol O'Sullivan

In this issue, I wish farewell to Carol O’Sullivan, who has served as associate editor in chief (AEIC) for special issues since 2010. During this same period, she has also been coeditor in chief of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. Through 2013, Carol will be a visiting professor at Seoul National University, working with Jehee Lee on animation and perception. She has therefore decided to...

Gerald Sommer

Carers' responses to shifting identity in dementia in Iris and Away From Her: cultivating stability or embracing change?

An emphasis on supporting and maintaining self-identity in people who have dementia for as long as possible has gone hand in hand with the revitalisation of dementia interventions, services and empowerment. However, recognition of the need for change, adaptation and personal growth is as necessary when living with dementia as at any other time in people's lives. Those who care for people with d...