Review - Medical Nihilism, Jacob Stegenga, OUP, 2018

OUP CORRECTED PROOF–FINAL, //, SPi

Metasemantics, I will take it, inquires into the nature of certain properties investigated by natural language semantics. It seeks a certain sort of ‘more fundamental’ characterization of these properties. It asks whether and how these semantic properties might admit of some illuminating reduction to, or unification with, nonsemantic properties. It would be good to put this more precisely. But...

Appendix 1: Osteopathic Graduate Medical Education, 2018.

Logical Nihilism

Madhyamaka is Not Nihilism

Introduction Nāgārjuna (c. 200 CE) is the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy, and easily, after the Buddha himself, the most influential philosopher in the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition. Despite the great consensus on his philosophical and doctrinal importance, there is little consensus, either in the canonical Buddhist and non-Buddhist literature of India, Tibet and East Asi...

OUP: lethal gene drive selects inbreeding

The use of 'selfish' gene drive systems to suppress or even extinguish populations has been proposed on theoretical grounds for almost half a century. Creating these genes has recently become possible with CRISPR technology. One seemingly feasible approach, originally proposed by Burt, is to create a homing endonuclease gene (HEG) that inserts into an essential gene, enabling heterozygote viabi...