If explicit reasoning about morality promotes moral behavior, as Kohlberg and many ethicists have suggested, then one might expect ethics professors to behave particularly well. However, professional ethicists’ behavior has never been empirically studied. The present research examined the rates at which ethics books are missing from leading academic libraries, compared to other philosophy books...

Associated with each component of the Nash equilibria of a game are its index and degree. Its index is the local degree of the displacement map whose roots are the Nash equilibria of the game. Its degree is the local degree of the projection map from the Nash graph to the space of games. We show that the index and the degree of each component are the same. Further, they are invariant to adding ...

Transpersonal aspects of development show potential to complete Piaget’s project. At both the beginning and the end of his career Piaget showed an interest in transpersonal themes, which he approached through the theory of ‘‘immanentism;’’ in the present age he would have been classed amongst transpersonalists. In Piaget’s genetic epistemology both evolution and development progressed in Hegel-...

This year the meeting included again a wide variety of topics. Beside ‘typical’ ones like malaria (Rothe) or actual aspects concerning vaccinations (Burchard, Kling) other lecturers reported about international aid in case catastrophies (Schad), polar regions (Kohlberg), volcano tourism (Heggie), diving medicine (Koonen and Schröder), rare diseases naegleria even work space (Ewald). A session f...