Reed-Elsevier's hypocrisy in selling arms and health

Reagan tells nation he ' ' regrets ' ' selling arms to Iranians

A county grand jury will decide today whether to indict a Notre Dame student in con­ nection with the Dec. 6 accident that killed junior Michael Cogswell. The 21-year-old student has been subpoened to testify before the grand jury in St. Joseph County Superior Court, the county prosecutor’s office said. Notre Dame senior Douglas Meier said he also was sub­ poened to testify at the hearing, whic...

The organized hypocrisy of ethical foreign policy: human rights, democracy and Western arms sales

Over the past two decades, Western political leaders have scripted a more ethical foreign policy, wherein far greater weight is given to protecting the rights and freedoms of extraterritorial citizens. Using the example of arms exports to developing countries, the present paper exposes the organized hypocrisy underlying countries’ self-declared ethical turn. We show that the major Western arms ...

Small Arms and Global Health

Selling Health to the Public

Let me confess at the outset that I feel uncomfortable with the title given to my presentation, "Selling Health to the Public," and that I feel equally uncomfortable with such terms as, "marketing health," "the health marketplace," or any others that equate the health area with the marketplace. These terms have become quite popular in recent years because the presumed success of Madison Avenue ...

Assertion, uniqueness and epistemic hypocrisy

Engel (Grazer Philos Stud 77: 45–59, 2008) has insisted that a number of notable strategies for rejecting the knowledge norm of assertion are put forward on the basis of the wrong kinds of reasons. A central aim of this paper will be to establish the contrast point: I argue that one very familiar strategy for defending the knowledge norm of assertion—viz., that it is claimed to do better in var...