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Perspective: Medical professionalism and medical education should not involve commitments to political advocacy.

It is increasingly suggested that political advocacy is a core professional responsibility for physicians. The author argues that this is an error. Advocacy on behalf of societal goals, even those goals as unexceptionable as the betterment of human health, is inevitably political. Claims that political advocacy are a professional responsibility are mistaken, the author argues, because (1) civic...

Do medical professionalism and medical education involve commitments to political advocacy?

Transdisciplinary Commitments in University Curriculum

Nowadays, there is a growing interest in transdisciplinary approach to university curriculum development, transdisciplinary Studies are about the realms, goals, and goals of the transition field. The early phases of transdisciplinary in higher education curriculum can be complex and so there are challenges to the definition and operationalization this approach to the university curriculum. In ...

Polynomial Commitments

We introduce and formally define polynomial commitment schemes, and provide two efficientconstructions. A polynomial commitment scheme allows a committer to commit to a polynomialwith a short string that can be used by a verifier to confirm claimed evaluations of the committedpolynomial. Although the homomorphic commitment schemes in the literature can be used toachieve this goa...

Truthmaker commitments

On the truthmaker view of ontological commitment [Heil (From an ontological point of view, 2003); Armstrong (Truth and truthmakers, 2004); Cameron (Philosophical Studies, 2008)], a theory is committed to the entities needed in the world for the theory to be made true. I argue that this view puts truthmaking to the wrong task. None of the leading accounts of truthmaking—via necessitation, superv...

Timed Commitments

We introduce and construct timed commitment schemes, an extension to the standard notion of commitments in which a potential forced opening phase permits the receiver to recover (with effort) the committed value without the help of the committer. An important application of our timed-commitment scheme is contract signing: two mutually suspicious parties wish to exchange signatures on a contract...