Anchoring a Revisionist Account of Moral Responsibility

Chronic illness: a revisionist account.

This article challenges the generally accepted thesis that the emergence and dominance of chronic illness over the last half century is due to the receding tide of acute infectious diseases and an ageing population. Instead, through an analysis of contemporary reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association, it is argued that the construct of chronic illness emerged as part of a new ...

America and Trade Liberalization: A Revisionist Account

We want to thank Lydia Cox and Joe Grimes for their able help in compiling the data. As well, Rachel Rubinfeld and Ashley Conner provided valuable assistance in finding and coding the original data set. The paper has benefited from excellent

Moral Responsibility

Introduction General Overviews Anthologies and Textbooks Free Will Classic Texts Contemporary Debates and their Precursors (I) Utilitarian Instrumentalism (II) Responsibility and the Reactive Sentiments (III) Identifying with our Actions (IV) The Value of Choice and Contractualist Developments Moral Reasons and Moral Address Arguments Against Control Earlier Contributions Social and Political A...

Dream experience and a revisionist account of delusions of misidentification.

Standard accounts of delusion explain them as responses to experience. Cognitive models of feature binding in the face recognition systems explain how experiences of mismatch between feelings of "familiarity" and faces can arise. Similar mismatches arise in phenomena such as déjà and jamais vu in which places and scenes are mismatched to feelings of familiarity. These cognitive models also expl...

Book Review: Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility