William King on election, reason, and desire: a reply to Kenneth Pearce

Authors' reply to Pearce.

Wewelcome Steve Pearce’s news that a randomised controlled trial of therapeutic communities in the treatment of personality disorder is under way and look forward to hearing the results. 2 We acknowledge that therapeutic communities in the UK are now almost all day programmes, and we perhaps should have more accurately cited the most recent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NIC...

Xiv*-reason and Desire

My topic is the debate in moral psychology between the rationalist and the anti-rationalist over the proper relation between reason and desire. My aim is not to adjudicate this debate, but rather to clarify what is at stake, for, it seems to me, both parties are prone to misconceive the issues that divide them. Rationalists and anti-rationalists alike believe that there are norms of rationality...

Reply to King and Stover.

TO THE EDITOR—We appreciate the response of King and Stover [1] to our recent article [2]. The authors bring up the important issue of piperacillin-tazobactam and its association with positive serum galactomannan index assays due to the presence of antigenic epitopes in many branded preparations. In our report, we did not comment on the use of branded or generic piperacillin-tazobactam in our p...

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

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