Abstract Personites are like continuant people but shorter-lived. Johnston argues that personites do not exist since otherwise would have the same moral status as persons, which is untenable. I argue Johnston’s arguments fail. To propose an alternative way to understand intrinsicness and clarify meaning of reductionism about persons. also a plausible ethical theory possible even if My draw on e...

This paper reports on aspects of a small-scale, UK-based study that investigated local discourses and practices operating for young children within a global context of commitment to inclusion. The study focused on parents of young children identified as having special educational needs, who opted for a combination of both inclusive and special early years settings to ‘get the best of both world...

The Internet has raised student plagiarism to a new level. Never before has access to information been as easy, and never before have students had such a capacity to search, order, borrow, copy, cut and paste. This paper offers a critical perspective on current practices that deal with student plagiarism, while placing the issue into the context of current Internet culture. As cyber-plagiarism ...

I give a brief review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). The methods used to constrain YP by the CMBR are then discussed, including methods later discarded in favor of others. To conclude, I give limits found by our analysis and discuss the implications of said limits.

THE SURGEONS I first met Mr (as he was then) George Johnston and Mr Terence Kennedy in the old Wards 5 and 6 in the Royal Victoria Hospital (now demolished) 2 when I was a student. They had strikingly different personalities-Mr Kennedy was more than a little daunting but both were constantly stimulating and renowned teachers. The teaching ward rounds revealed surgical cases in the true sense of...