Jay L. Garfield: Engaging Buddhism

MARK COLYVAN, JAY L. GARFIELD and GRAHAM PRIEST PROBLEMS WITH THE ARGUMENT FROM FINE TUNING

The argument from fine tuning is supposed to establish the existence of God from the fact that the evolution of carbon-based life requires the laws of physics and the boundary conditions of the universe to be more or less as they are. We demonstrate that this argument fails. In particular, we focus on problems associated with the role probabilities play in the argument. We show that, even grant...

Britta L . Anderson & Jay Schulkin

The research discussed in this volume stems, in part, from work on health literacy. Health literacy is “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (nnlm.gov). When people hear the term health literacy, they may think of a patient’s ability to read medical information and ...

Eugene Garfield

Thisessaydiscusseslupus, an imnnme-systemdysfunctionthat affects may, especiallyyoung women, but is recognized by all too few. Its multiple manifestations have been baffling to researchers for over 100years; only rexently have the tools of molecular biology and immunogenetics reveafed substantial new information on its mechanism of autoimmunity. Still, the ukimate trigger for lupus remains a my...

A Review of Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought

Jay Johnson

It is seldom possible to plausibly define and observe a pool of potential entrants to a market. This study overcomes that limitation by taking advantage of an opportunity to reasonably define the potential entrants into MTBE production, a rapidly growing environmental product from the mid-1980’s to mid-1990’s. Potential entrants are identified as those firms having access to specific assets tha...