In his book, Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve interviews eleven prominent moral philosophers about central aspects of their views as well as about their intellectual development.1 In their order of appearance, these are: Frances Kamm, Peter Singer, Daniel Kahneman, Philippa Foot, Alasdair MacIntyre, Ken Binmore, Allan Gibbard, Thomas Scanlon, Bernard Williams, Harry Frankfurt, and David ...

DeGrazia argues that post-persons have as much justification in believing that they have higher moral status than persons as persons have in believing that they have higher moral status than animals. DeGrazia's claim presupposes that what Buchanan calls the "moral equality assumption" is false. This article argues that DeGrazia has given us no reason to disbelieve the moral equality assumption....

defendant of the Acts: "I am astounded at the audacity of his declaration 'Our profession and our profession alone has a right to dictate ...' in the matter of the Contagious Diseases Acts! This kind of assertion, which I fear expresses the opinion of some of these aristocratic doctors is calculated to make the medical profession (as a friend expressed it) 'stink in the nostrils of the moral an...

the books written on the world strange items and categories ,may be called as a literary genre, too. they also originate from the people's beliefs, traditions, customs, and culture of a specific region. some of these strange items and categories have been turned into various tales of mysteries. the experts of other fields, such as geography, history, etc. have used them as well. azari toos...

Label-free detection of the interaction between hexahistidine-tagged human κ-opioid receptor membrane protein and anti-His antibody is demonstrated in liquid by an optical microelectromechanical system utilizing electromagnetically actuated microresonators. Shift in resonance frequency due to accretion of mass on the sensitive surface of microresonators is monitored via an integrated optical re...

Francis Hutcheson’s theory of value is often characterized as a precursor to the qualitative hedonism of John Stuart Mill. The interpretation of Mill as a qualitative hedonist has come under fire recently; some have argued that he is, in fact, a hedonist of no variety at all.1 Others have argued that his hedonism is as non-qualitative as Bentham’s.2 The purpose of this essay is not to criticall...

moral psychology is an important part of ethics. some of the recent interpreters of nietzsche’s philosophy have tried to elaborate a nietzschean naturalistic moral psychology based on his remarks and pose it against other positions in moral psychology, especially the kantian one with its fundamental claim that third-person accounts of moral psychology have no bearing on a morality which purport...

We evaluate the ability of hexahistidine (His6) tags on peptide and protein substrates to recruit deoxyribozymes for modifying those substrates. For two different deoxyribozymes, one that creates tyrosine-RNA nucleopeptides and another that phosphorylates tyrosine side chains, we find substantial improvements in yield, kobs, and Km for peptide substrates due to recruiting by His6/Cu(2+). Howeve...