This article describes an innovative curriculum module the author created on the two-way exchange between ethics and statistics. Part of an undergraduate interdisciplinary ethics course, the module builds upon a prior introduction to basic philosophical ethics, but has no particular mathematical prerequisites beyond high school algebra. Its emphasis on conceptual and critical thinking makes it ...

OBJECTIVE Sophisticated signal processing has opened the doors to more research with human subjects than ever before. The increase in the use of human subjects in research comes with a need for increased human subjects protections. APPROACH We quantified the presence or absence of ethics language in published reports of brain-computer interface (BCI) studies that involved human subjects and q...

Internationally, there is an on-going dialogue about how to professionalize ethics consultation services (ECSs). Despite these efforts, one aspect of ECS-competence that has received scant attention is the liability of failing to adequately capture all of the relevant moral considerations in an ethics conflict. This failure carries a high price for the least powerful stakeholders in the dispute...

In his article, "Analyzing East/West Power Politics in Comparative Cultural Studies," William H. Thornton acknowledges culture as a central force on the geopolitical map and undertakes at once to preserve the strategic potency of political realism and to move beyond the "billiard ball" externality of both neoand traditional realisms. Although Huntington and Fukuyama are taken seriously on the q...

and Applied Analysis 3 Table 1: Dynamic behaviors of historical Lorentz system for different signs of parameters.

Abstract The rejection of metaphysical questions is a constant in Carnap’s thought. first part the paper delves into question basic tenets anti-metaphysics. Tying up to accounts authors like Michael Friedman and Werner Sauer, author examines relation between verificationism so-called logical criteria, arguing not only that secondary, but integration both instruments early philosophy faces diffi...

New Waves in Ethics. Ed. Thom Brooks. Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming) Introduction Much has been written in recent years about the bearing of experimental results in social psychology on the existence of character traits. Gilbert Harman and John Doris are what we might call global trait eliminativists – on the basis of the psychological data, they reject the existence of all character traits w...