Hauntological Perplexities: Spectrality, Theodicy, and Vertigo

Theodicy and Animals

It is widely acknowledged among those philosophers and theologians who have given the matter much thought that the fact of animal suffering challenges Theism in a distinctive way. Standard attempts to reconcile human suffering with a perfectly powerful and benevolent deity don’t seem to apply easily to the case of animals. Animals can hardly be said to deserve their suffering or be morally impr...

Theodicy and End-of-Life Care

This article examines theodicy-the vindication of God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil from the perspectives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We focus on the thought processes that chaplains, social workers, and other professionals may use in their care interventions to address issues of theodicy for patients. Theodical issues may cause anxiety and distress for be...

Spectrality of Ordinary Differential Operators

We prove the long standing conjecture in the theory of two-point boundary value problems that completeness and Dunford’s spectrality imply Birkhoff regularity. In addition we establish the even order part of S.G.Krein’s conjecture that dissipative differential operators are Birkhoff-regular and give sharp estimate of the norms of spectral projectors in the odd case. Considerations are based on ...

Animal Souls, Metempsychosis, and Theodicy in Seventeenth- Century English Thought

Perplexities of treatment resistence in eating disorders

BACKGROUND Treatment resistance is an omnipresent frustration in eating disorders. Attempts to identify the features of this resistance and subsequently develop novel treatments have had modest effects. This selective review examines treatment resistant features expressed in core eating disorder psychopathology, comorbidities and biological features. Novel treatments addressing resistance are d...