What Kind of Monist is Anne Finch Conway?

What kind of “ is ” is Sahlins ’ “ is ” ?

How monist is heterodoxy?

Some heterodox economists, most notably Tony Lawson, have come under suspicion of not being true pluralists, but ‘strategic pluralists’: their advocacy of pluralism is thought to be merely instrumental to a hidden monist agenda. This paper does not aim to judge the accused but rather to assess the accusations; the focus is on clarifying the notion of pluralism itself. First a paradox is found t...

What Kind of Production Is Construction?

Applicability of lean principles to construction might seem to require that construction’s differentiating characteristics be softened or explained away. This is the strategy employed by those who advocate making construction more like the manufacturing from which lean thinking originated. Following that line of thought, successive waves of implementation would leave ever smaller remainders tha...

What kind of doing is clinical ethics?

This paper discusses the importance of Richard M. Zaner's work on clinical ethics for answering the question: what kind of doing is ethics consultation? The paper argues first, that four common approaches to clinical ethics -- applied ethics, casuistry, principlism, and conflict resolution cannot adequately address the nature of the activity that makes up clinical ethics; second, that understan...

What kind of stroke is it?

The search for protein biomarkers in peripheral blood to aid in the diagnosis of stroke and the prediction of prognosis after stroke and risk of future stroke is an active area of investigation. Although some markers, such as S100b and neuron-specific enolase, have been shown to have prognostic value in ischemic stroke (1, 2 ), no biochemical markers have proven to be really useful in routine c...