this article deals with the social and family values in one of the most famous simulation games (the sims) in the recent years. it is tried to answer some questions, whether, the sims is a representative of social values of american society, and in particular, of the american family. what is the cement of the american society from the game point of view? what does the sims family suggest as a m...

Since the enactment of the Federal Trademark Anti-Dilution Act ("FTDA") in 1996, how to measure a mark's "fame" has emerged as an important and controversial issue in trademark law. Congress did not intend the FTDA to protect trademarks unless they are "truly famous." Rather than specifically defining "famous" in the legislation, Congress provided an eight-factor fame test that courts "may" con...

ethan kohlberg, the jewish orientalist and specialist on shi‘a, sees the distortion in holy scriptures, including quran, inevitable. from his point of view, some quranic verses confirm this point. his second proof is the history of the quran and the time when its whole text was written down. in his viewpoint,   hadiths which prove that the quran had been written down in abu bakr’s time ore orie...

Panpsychism, the view that fundamental physical entities have conscious experiences, is an exciting and promising view for addressing the mind–body problem. I have argued in “Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism” that it promises to share the advantages of both materialism and dualism and the disadvantages of neither. In particular, it can respect both the epistemological intuitions that motivate d...