Re-Framing the Sharia Arbitration Debate

Framing the Debate

Computer In Computer’s January 2002 issue, Barry Boehm presented a fresh look at a set of software development methods often referred to as agile or extreme programming (“Get Ready for Agile Methods, with Care,” Jan. 2002, pp. 64-69). This favorable assessment by one of the software establishment’s leading lights prompted the latest of several e-mail dialogues between Boehm and software luminar...

Modularity in cognition: framing the debate.

Modularity has been the subject of intense debate in the cognitive sciences for more than 2 decades. In some cases, misunderstandings have impeded conceptual progress. Here the authors identify arguments about modularity that either have been abandoned or were never held by proponents of modular views of the mind. The authors review arguments that purport to undermine modularity, with particula...

Re-moralizing the suicide debate.

Contemporary approaches to the study of suicide tend to examine suicide as a medical or public health problem rather than a moral problem, avoiding the kinds of judgements that have historically characterised discussions of the phenomenon. But morality entails more than judgement about action or behaviour, and our understanding of suicide can be enhanced by attending to its cultural, social, an...

Framing the Big Data Ethics Debate for the Military

Framing the debate on human-like framing effects in bonobos and chimpanzees: a comment on Krupenye

2016 Framing the debate on human-like framing effects in bonobos and chimpanzees: a comment on Krupenye et al. Recently, Krupenye, Rosati & Hare (KRH henceforth) reported that bonobos and chimpanzees show 'human-like framing effects' in a food choice task [1]. Chimpanzees and bonobos could choose between a 'framed' option of fruit and an alternative option of peanuts (matched in expected value ...