This chapter uses moral psychology to illustrate why exemplar methods are essential for building a valid, complete understanding of key domains of human development. Social psychological, economic, and biological-evolutionary paradigms for studying morality rely on samples drawn from the general population. This research reveals a bleak picture of morality, highlighting its irrational, self-int...

STEPHEN KAPLAN Department of Psychology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan 3418 Mason Hall Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1027, USA ABSTRACT / One of the enduring facts of the human condition is that the earth's resources are finite and its environment fragile. It is also evident that human behavior is rarely based on an appreciation of these facts. While the outl...

Recently Lakemeyer and Levesque proposed the logic AOL, which amalgamates both the situation calculus and Levesque’s logic of only knowing. While very expressive the practical relevance of the formalism is unclear because it heavily relies on second-order logic. In this paper we demonstrate that the picture is not as bleak as it may seem. In particular, we show that for large classes of AOL kno...

Despite an array of treatment modalities, the overall prognosis for patients with severe heart failure remains bleak. Biventricular pacing, or cardiac resynchronization therapy, is gaining increasing acceptance as a compelling treatment for those individuals with advanced heart failure (New York Heart Association functional class III or IV). This article provides a brief description of the atri...

Introduction “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” While this famous quote from the opening of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities may seem overwrought when applied to the state of higher education today, there is a disquieting sense among educators that it might not be far from the truth. The late 1990s certainly are good times, particularly when compared to the bleak days ...

Purpose: we present the case of a patient presenting with altered mental status on post-operative day seven after a diagnostic lung biopsy. The diagnosis of carcinomatous letomeningeal metastasis was confirmed. Methods: we discuss meningeal carcinomatosis in lung cancer, and describe challenges to diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis. Results: a review of the literature describing the clinical and...

since its birth in ancient greece, tragedy as an important dramatic form has always attracted the attention of those who have a tragic sense of life. although many scholars of tragedy put forward a bleak view regarding the possibility for the continuance of tragedy in modern times, two great dramatists, henrik ibsen and anton chekhov, showed that tragedy can still be created in modern times pro...

In Zero K, DeLillo revisits the ever-increasing connection between identity and technology However, he does so in a unique way, adding (im)mortality issues to an already complex mix. As result, not only explores intricacies of our present context, but also provides bleak picture what could be posthuman future. This paper examines how DeLillo’s fiction reveals subjectivity current post-modern so...

The study examines potential threats and prospects for the linguistic ecosystem of Balti other local languages spoken in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. researchers employ a mixed-methods approach data is collected from 305 respondents through survey questionnaire developed on Google forms. are either native speakers or use as their second link language. used contains both close-ended open-ended qu...