Recently, a number of philosophers have advanced a surprising conclusion: people’s judgments about whether an agent brought about an outcome intentionally are pervasively influenced by normative considerations. In this paper, we investigate the ‘Chairman case’, an influential case from this literature and disagree with this conclusion. Using a statistical method called structural path modeling,...

A mericans who are interested in purchasing a motor vehicle often investigate automobile manufacturers, car models, and even competitive pricing using the World Wide Web. When one uses an Internet search engine to investigate Toyota, the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, there are >93 000 000 results. Virtually every possible question one would have about a Toyota vehicle is discove...

There have been huge changes in science and technology in the past 30 years. We now understand the genetic basis of many diseases, and with the complete mapping of the genome, our knowledge will expand tremendously. We have CT, MRI, computer-guided surgery, gait analysis, and a host of other advances which have made medical care for our patients more effective. While these changes have profound...

Clara Reeve’s (1729–1807) Gothic novel The Old English Baron is a node for contemplating two discursive exclusions. novel, due to its own ambiguous status as gendered “body”, has proven difficult text discourse on the Female recognise. Subjected temperamental dialectic of reclamation and disavowal, can be made speak (often) subordinate position Transgender Studies within field Queer Studies, an...