Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara of Jainism is highly celebrated figure in the world for his ideas that revolutionized world. He was a realist thinker who tried hard to spread humanitarian values, human-centric teachings centred on making one’s life viable himself and others. This paper an attempt present brief one aspect Mahavira’s model individual well-being comparing it with ‘Capability-approach’ ...

Daniel Dennett’s Freedom Evolves is a rhetorically powerful but philosophically unconvincing attempt to show that a deterministic and ontologically reductionist, but epistemologically pluralist, outlook may peacefully coexist with a robust acceptance of human freedom and moral responsibility. The key to understanding the harmony rests in recognizing that freedom is not a metaphysical or physica...

Do people evaluate the quality of explanations differently depending on their goals? In particular, are explanations of different kinds (formal, mechanistic, teleological) judged differently depending on the future judgments the evaluator anticipates making? We report two studies demonstrating that the perceived “goodness” of explanations depends on the evaluator’s current goals, with explanati...

uman clinical research trials, by which corporations, universities, and research scientists bring new drugs, devices, H and procedures into the practice and marketplace of medicine, have become a huge business. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) doubled its spending over the past five years,’ while in the private sector the top twenty pharmaceutical companies have more than doubled their i...

These issues are real. Robots with lethal capabilities are being deployed in several operational theaters. And mistakes are being made. Partly they are due to “fog of war” and the difficulty for remote operators to have a good operational awareness of the situation on the ground. But, as anecdotal evidence in for example Singer (2009) points out, another reason is unclarity in command, control ...