Crustaceans are a morphologically, physiologically and ecologically highly diverse animal group and correspondingly diverse are their reproductive characteristics. They have evolved structural specialities with respect to penis construction, sperm form, sperm storage, fertilization and brood care. Unique in the animal kingdom are safety lines that safeguard hatching and first molting. Further c...

This paper examines questions concerning elective ventilation, contextualised within English law and policy. It presents the general debate with reference both to the Exeter Protocol on elective ventilation, and the considerable developments in legal principle since the time that that protocol was declared to be unlawful. I distinguish different aspects of what might be labelled elective ventil...

The posthumous publication of J.L. Austin's How to do things with word in 1962 resulted in the creation of a new field of enquiry ~ which Austin sometimes referred to as linguistic phenomenologv. i.e. the investigation of everyday phenomena through their codification in language. In How to do things with words Austin combined the idea of a linguistic phenomenology with the idea of speech as act...

This study examines the intersections of music, philosophy and the use of metaphors and other linguistic expressions relating to violence in the writings of Theodor W. Adorno. After discussing contemporary theories of metaphor, it examines Adorno's comparisons of the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky in his 1948 volume Philosophie der neuen Musik, the posthumous collection of fragments for his...

Francis Hutcheson’s theory of value is often characterized as a precursor to the qualitative hedonism of John Stuart Mill. The interpretation of Mill as a qualitative hedonist has come under fire recently; some have argued that he is, in fact, a hedonist of no variety at all.1 Others have argued that his hedonism is as non-qualitative as Bentham’s.2 The purpose of this essay is not to criticall...

One of the most lasting contributions of Marr's posthumous book is his articulation of the different "levels of analysis" that are needed to understand vision. Although a variety of work has examined how these different levels are related, there is comparatively little examination of the assumptions on which his proposed levels rest, or the plausibility of the approach Marr articulated given th...

This issue of the journal includes papers across both analytical and empirical schools within bioethics. In his feature article, ‘The kindest cut? Surgical castration, sex offenders and coercive offers’, John McMillan asks whether surgical castration can be ethically provided as medical treatment for sex offenders (see page 583, Editor’s choice). While surgical castration has previously been av...

Does our life have value for us after we die? Despite the importance of such a question, many would find it absurd, even incoherent. Once are dead, thought goes, no longer around to any wellbeing at all. However, in this paper I argue that common is mistaken. In order make sense some most central normative thoughts and practices, must hold person can they die. provide two arguments claim on bas...