Argument about the ethical possibility of the therapeutic use of embryonic stem cells depends critically on the evaluation of the moral status of the very early embryo. Some assert that at the blastocyst stage it is only potentially human, not yet possessing the full ethical status of personhood, while others assert that from its formation the embryo possesses all the moral rights of a human pe...

This paper is an attempt to understand the influence of architectural settings on people; why certain architectural experiences stays with us whereas others vanish. It is a first step in an approach towards a greater understanding of subject and as such its starting point is purely theoretical. We proceed the investigation by exploring two perspectives on the issue: a) a phenomenological perspe...

iii Preface Applied Mathematics: Body&Soul is a mathematics education reform program including a series of books, together with associated educational material and open source software freely available from the project web page at www.bodysoulmath.org. Body&Soul reflects the revolutionary new possibilities of mathematical modeling opened by the modern computer in the form of Computational Calcu...