Miami vices

The Miami Vices in the CCU. Part I. Cardiac manifestations of cocaine use.

There is a widespread misconception that the social use of cocaine is not associated with serious medical complications. It is therefore necessary to reemphasize that cocaine use can precipitate life-threatening cardiac events even in the absence of underlying heart disease.

Word Vices

The Vices of Argument

What should a virtue theory of argumentation say about fallacious reasoning? If good arguments are virtuous, then fallacies are vicious. Yet fallacies cannot just be identified with vices, since vices are dispositional properties of agents whereas fallacies are types of argument. Rather, if the normativity of good argumentation is explicable in terms of virtues, we should expect the wrongness o...

Virtues and Vices in Monetary Tradeoffs

Monetary intertemporal tradeoffs are a restricted, yet underexplored, domain. In this extended abstract, we provide an integrative analysis of monetary tradeoffs involving single dated outcomes, unmixed sequences, virtues (schedules of investment), and vices (schedules of debt). Results include debt aversion, aversion to vices (which adds to debt aversion) and relative vices, and attraction to ...

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