If we are flâneurs, can we be cosmopolitans?

Can we be harmed after we are dead?

Philosophers from antiquity onwards have asked whether we are harmed by death itself [1,2]. My question is different. I want to know whether we can be harmed by further events that happen after we are dead. While connected, the two questions are clearly distinct. Someone might think that death is normally a very bad thing for the deceased, yet hold that, once you are gone, you are beyond the re...

Thinking Machines: Can There Be? Are We?

Artificial intelligence researchers predict that _thinking machines_ will take over our mental work, just as their mechanical predecessors were intended to eliminate physical drudgery. Critics have argued with equal fervor that _thinking machine_ is a contradiction in terms. Computers, with their foundations of cold logic, can never be creative or insightful or possess real judgment. Although m...

Communication Problems Can Be Solvable We Are Radiologists. What Business Are We In?

One of the bedeviling problems in the communication of results of imaging tests, especially in large hospitals, is the seeming complexity of possibilities in the attempts to reach referring physicians. This has been considered an inherent consequence of the multiplicity of referrers, their apparent anonymity, and mobility. It is a source of frustration for image interpreters, but it is not an i...

Molecular Targets for Endometriosis Therapy: Where We Are and Where We Are Going?

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Can We Be Too Careful?