Some say that we should respect the privacy of dead people. In this article, I take idea for granted and use it to motivate stronger claim sometimes ought our past selves.

A Longitudinal Examination of Regulatory Focus Theory’s Application to Adolescent Psychopathology by Megan McCrudden Klenk Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Timothy Strauman, Supervisor ___________________________ Philip Costanzo ___________________________ John Curry ___________________________ Marilyn E...

An old question of T. Jech and K. Prikry asks if an existence of a precipitous ideal implies necessary existence of a normal precipitous ideal. The aim of the paper is to prove some results in the positive direction. Thus, it is shown that under some mild assumptions, an existence of a precipitous ideal over א1 implies an existence of a normal precipitous ideal over א1 once a Cohen subset is ad...

We developed a 9-week after-school, small group, activities-based intervention focused on enhancing youth's abilities to imagine themselves as successful adults and connecting these future imagines to current school involvement. We describe and evaluate this programme comparing three cohorts of urban African American middle school students (n=62 experimental, n=146 control), controlling for sex...

In this response to Helga Varden’s Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory, I challenge characterization ofpostmodern approaches sexual orientation identity, arguing that it is mistaken assume an opposition between socialconstructionism reality, or social constructionism experience of deep-seated identity. also question whether, onceone takes into account the effects hegemonic heterosexuality, ...

In “Of Personal Identity”, Hume attempts to understand why we ordinarily believe in persistent selves. He proposes that this ontological commitment depends on illusions and fictions: the imagination tricks us into supposing an unchanging core self remains static through flux change of experience. Recent work cognitive science provides a good deal support for Hume’s hypothesis common beliefs abo...