Category: Posts by Mark D. White
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Mark D. White I have to admit, malicious and hurtful stereotypes aside, this is funny…
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Mark D. White In the most recent "Room for Debate" feature in The New York Times, five scholars involved in law, psychiatry, and criminal justice discuss the current state of the insanity defense in light of the Tucson shootings. A nice range of viewpoints is presented, from Alan Dershowitz's argument that the insanity defense has…
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Mark D. White Thanks to Annie Lowrey, I found this recent New York Times article, "Getting a Student Rate When You're Not a Student," which advises youngish people, typically former students, on how to take advantage of the discounts that retailers and other merchants give to current students. The discussion of the ethics of this practice is…
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Mark D. White An upcoming article in Bioethics (apparently open access for the time being) asks the question… SHOULD WE ALLOW ORGAN DONATION EUTHANASIA? ALTERNATIVES FOR MAXIMIZING THE NUMBER AND QUALITY OF ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANTATION Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu ABSTRACT There are not enough solid organs available to meet the needs of patients with…
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Mark D. White A minisymposium in the most recent issue of Journal of Economic Metholodogy (December 2010) asks that very question–it seems to be that reflection on methodology is always justified, and it is unfortunate that it took a crisis of this magnitude to spur it. After a brief introduction from Kevin Hoover, the following…
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Mark D. White I just came across a fascinating paper titled "Is Health (Really) Special? Health Policy Between Rawlsian and Luck Egalitarian Justice" by Shlomi Segall (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. From the abstract: In recent work, Norman Daniels extends the application of Rawls's principle of "fair equality of opportunity"…
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Mark D. White Today's Pickles strip provides a valuable service to gungho-ho-ho regulators everywhere: Why, this is going on in every neighborhood in America! Something must be done! I can hear them now: "We'll have to subsidize the decorators–no, no, we'll tax the nondecorators! Better yet, we'll make everyone buy holiday decorations, and tax penalize put…
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Mark D. White Thanks to Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog, I became aware of F. Patrick Hubbard's new paper "'Do Androids Dream?': Personhood and Intelligent Artifacts," forthcoming in Temple Law Review, which considers the issue of granting the status of personhood to an artificial intelligence: This Article proposes a test to be used in answering…
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Mark D. White In The Wall Street Journal today, the very prominent popularizer of philosophy from across the pond, Alain de Botton, writes of the modern university's neglect of the wisdom that can be imparted to students through the study of culture, rather than just intellectualizing it all to death. From the article: The modern…
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Mark D. White As I'm sure you already know, the U.S. Senate voted today to end the ban on open homosexuals in the military. I hope the president signs this bill and ends seventeen years of forcing gay and lesbian Americans who wish only to serve their country to either lie about or conceal an essential…
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