Resignation provokes criticism

On resignation

versity. Mr Russo’s original letter, inform ing me that I was to receive no University aid, cam e before that office was aw are that I had w on the scholarship. This leads me to believe that the only c rite rion used in exam ining my file was my father’s gross incom e. Even though my father subm itted w ritten p roof o f in­ ability to pay, the University chose to ignore it. 1 believe that this...

Resignation Syndrome: Catatonia? Culture-Bound?

Resignation syndrome (RS) designates a long-standing disorder predominately affecting psychologically traumatized children and adolescents in the midst of a strenuous and lengthy migration process. Typically a depressive onset is followed by gradual withdrawal progressing via stupor into a state that prompts tube feeding and is characterized by failure to respond even to painful stimuli. The pa...

Resignation of Nurses in China

An Internet post claimed that at least 200 nurses recently resigned en masse from a large hospital in Zhejiang Province in China. However, this is actually not a new phenomenon. As is the case for doctors (1,2), the current nursing situation in public hospitals is not very optimistic. According to rough estimates, there is hundreds of nurses fried squid public hospital in Zhejiang Province ever...

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!