Can Persistent Offenders Acquire Virtue?

comparing spiritual intelligence and early maladaptive schemas between persistent offenders, first offenders, and normal individuals

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Can We Acquire Knowledge of Ultimate Reality?

Can humans acquire knowledge of ultimate reality, even significant or comprehensive knowledge? I argue that for all we know we can, and that is so whether ultimate reality is divine or non-divine. My strategy involves arguing that we are ignorant, in the sense of lacking public or shared knowledge, about which possibilities, if any, obtain for humans to acquire knowledge of ultimate reality. Th...

Can Treatment Make Some Sex Offenders Worse?

Brain anatomy of persistent violent offenders: more rather than less.

Most violent crimes in Western societies are committed by a small group of men who display antisocial behavior from an early age that remains stable across the life-span. It is not known if these men display abnormal brain structure. We compared regional brain volumes of 26 persistently violent offenders with antisocial personality disorder and substance dependence and 25 healthy men using magn...

Can virtue prevail? Safeguarding integrity in medicine and science.