There is now very little, if any, doubt that the global climate is changing and that this is in some way related to human behavior through unsustainable preferences in lifestyle and organizational practices. Despite the near conclusive evidence of the positive relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, a small proportion of people remain unconvinced. More importantly, eve...

Forty two years I've been in the ministry. Seen a lot of things. Do you know what I've noticed? Christianity is trendy. Especially in this country where everyone follows the winds of change to exploit change. Here is what I've noted. 1. Crusades and mass meetings: These were in the 50's and 60's. (Before me, mind you.) Billy Graham made them famous but this was the American means of educational...

As electrophysiologists we confront the challenge of articulating the risks and benefits of various management options to our patients and their families. Weighing the upfront risk typically associated with an interventional procedure against potential adverse events in the long term is a vexing problem that we frequently face in clinical practice. This discussion involves both the immediate ri...

Individual scientists, scientific communities and scientific journals can do more to assess the publication of irreproducible results, to promote good science, and to increase the efficiency with which the scientific community self-corrects.

How do skeptical thought experiments work? The skeptic invites us to “entertain” a vividly described possibility, then argues that skeptical conclusions follow from our inability to rule that possibility out. I contend that the argument’s soundness hinges on whether the skeptical possibilities generate legitimate doubts: we need to separate the issue of whether we can rule a possibility out fro...

e goal of this dissertation is to provide a unified account of two kinds of practical knowledge and the structure of intentional action. e topic of practical knowledge presents philosophical difficulties because of the modern tendency to picture cognition and the will as opposed: the will is concerned with changing the world, cognition with representing it as it already is. us the expression...