Modern human rights instruments ground human rights in the concept of human dignity, without providing an underlying theory of human dignity. This paper examines the central importance of human dignity, understood as not humiliating people, in traditional Jewish ethics. It employs this conception of human dignity to examine and criticize U.S. use of humiliation tactics and torture in the interr...

Introduction This paper's purpose is to describe and criticize the strategies of theory construction presented by the Columbia Department of Sociology's faculty during the 1950s. The Columbia Department was a major center for sociological theory during the 1950s and some of its graduates became important theorists during the last half of the century.

in this paper the most important arguments of muslim philosophers in supporting the createdness of the human soul are examined. we will criticize five arguments by some new objections and show that none of them is reliable and unquestionable. then we go through the most important views of exegetes on the nature of the world of pre-existence (the world of zarr) and criticize them. two of these v...

the book titled “bases of politics” is the original text for students of bachelor of political sciences which is taught in a three-unit course. this compilation has been introduced as the best reference for bases of politics course and master of science exam. we first introduce this text and assert its assumptions and then evaluate and criticize in contain and formal manner and finally after pr...

Hahn and others have recently criticized our study, "Conservation efforts may increase malaria burden in the Brazilian Amazon," suggesting that results were flawed because of methodological limitations. Here, we briefly comment on some of their claims, showing that (1) several of their criticisms are misleading and others are incorrect, (2) they heavily criticize methods that they themselves ha...

Sobel and Randle (2009) challenge several methodological choices in the comparative study of the evolution of reproductive isolation in Mediterranean deceptive orchids of Scopece et al. (2007) including the species concept used and the selection of taxa, together with the perceived comparison of clades of different ages. They further criticize that pollinator information was taken from the lite...

The Memorial Conference classification (2) certainly lends itself to criticism, and those who criticize it should not all be suspected of misunderstanding the broad principles on which it rests-I think most of us understand and appreciate th.em. Whatever its imperfections, that classification possesses one admirable q,uality, namely, its simplicity. One feels, therefore, that whatever changes m...

In this article I criticize the recommendations of some prominent statisticians about how to estimate and compare probabilities of the repeated sudden infant death and repeated murder. The issue has drawn considerable public attention in connection with several recent court cases in the UK. I try to show that when the three components of the Bayesian inference are carefully analyzed in this con...

In earlier work we proposed an account of information grounded in counterfactual conditionals rather than probabilities, and argued that it might serve philosophical needs that more familiar probabilistic alternatives do not. Demir (2008) and Scarantino (2008) criticize the counterfactual approach by contending that its alleged advantages are illusory and that it fails to secure attractive desi...