Beastly beliefs

Baby Fae: a beastly business.

The Baby Fae experiment has highlighted the growing trend in medicine of using animal parts in the treatment of humans. This paper raises the question of the logical and moral justification for these current practices and their proposed expansion. We argue that the Cognitive Capacity Principle establishes morally justified necessary and sufficient conditions for the use of non-human animals in ...

The Neutrophil: A Beautiful Beast or a Beastly Beauty?

phenotype are not known. In this issue, Sawant et al. [9] present highly interesting data showing that CXCL1 monomer-dimer distribution and receptor interactions are highly coupled and regulate neutrophil trafficking, and that injury in the context of disease is a consequence of inappropriate CXCR2 activation at the target tissue [10] . The classic view is that neutrophils are important in bact...

"beliefs about Beliefs" without Probabilities

Beastly Beauty Products: Exposure to Inorganic Mercury in Skin-Lightening Creams

Understanding Branches Out Insights into PBDE Impacts on Brain Development Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants and their hydroxylated metabolites are structurally similar to thyroid hormone. A detailed study now provides one of the most insightful assessments to date of how environmentally relevant levels of PBDEs may impair brain development by interfering with thyroid hormon...

Phantasies, neurotic-beliefs, and beliefs-proper.

This paper presents a philosophical analysis of three cognitive states familiar and important to psychoanalysts--phantasy, neurotic-belief, and belief-proper. It explores the differences among these three propositional attitudes and finds that the development of secondary process capacities of reality testing and truth directness out of earlier primary process operations (themselves prior to co...