Moral Explanations, Thick and Thin

Moral Explanations, Thick and Thin by Brendan Cline

Through Thick and Thin

Patients with symptoms caused by hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy are treated with β-blockers, verapamil, and disopyramide. Novel drugs are under development. The minority of patients whose symptoms interfere substantially with lifestyle despite optimal pharmacological management may be offered septal reduction therapy with ablation or myectomy. Other mechanical therapies, including shor...

Through thick and thin.

8:45am Welcome and Introduction Innovations in Deep Exploration 9:00 Richard Hillis (DETCRC) The Deep Exploration Technologies CRC 9:30 Steven Hill (The University of Adelaide) Some deep thinking about deep regolith 9:50 Andreas Schmidt-Mumm (The University of Adelaide) Tracing ore systems using mineral chemistry 10:10 Graham Heinson (The University of Adelaide) Joint inversion of seismic and M...

Thin and Thick Galactic Disks

Studies of elemental abundances in stars belonging to the thin and the thick disk of our Galaxy are reviewed. Edvardsson et al. (1993) found strong evidence of [α/Fe] variations among F and G main sequence stars with the same [Fe/H] and interpreted these differences as due to radial gradients in the star formation rate in the Galactic disk. Several recent studies suggest, however, that the diff...

Belief through Thick and Thin

We distinguish between two categories of belief — thin belief and thick belief — and provide evidence that they approximate genuinely distinct categories within folk psychology. We use the distinction to make informative predictions about how laypeople view the relationship between knowledge and belief. More specifcally, we show that if the distinction is genuine, then we can make sense of othe...