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    Letters.Thomas A. Preston, Martha Jurchack, Edward P. Lewis & Howard Brody - 1994 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 5 (2):173-175.
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    Professional Norms and Physician Attitudes Toward Euthanasia.Thomas A. Preston - 1994 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 22 (1):36-40.
    The chair of the ethics committee of a major medical center agonized over how he, as a physician, and his organization should deal with Initiative 119, which, if passed, would legalize physician involvement in active, voluntary euthanasia in Washington State. In the end, he said, he could not vote for aid-in-dying because, “However much I want to reduce suffering, I myself just couldn’t do it to one of my patients.” He spoke of a personal distaste for the potential act, of (...)
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    Who Benefits from the Artificial Heart?Thomas A. Preston - 1985 - Hastings Center Report 15 (1):5-7.
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    Professional Norms and Physician Attitudes Toward Euthanasia.Thomas A. Preston - 1994 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 22 (1):36-40.
    The chair of the ethics committee of a major medical center agonized over how he, as a physician, and his organization should deal with Initiative 119, which, if passed, would legalize physician involvement in active, voluntary euthanasia in Washington State. In the end, he said, he could not vote for aid-in-dying because, “However much I want to reduce suffering, I myself just couldn’t do it to one of my patients.” He spoke of a personal distaste for the potential act, of (...)
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    The Personal as Political.Thomas A. Preston - 1996 - Hastings Center Report 26 (5):2-3.
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  6. End-of-life choices.M. Kleepsies Phillip, J. Miller Pamela & A. Preston Thomas - 2009 - In James L. Werth & Dean Blevins (eds.), Decision making near the end of life: issues, developments, and future directions. New York: Routledge.
     
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    The Origins and Development of Association Football in th eLiverpool District, c.1879 until c.1915.Thomas J. Preston - unknown
    This thesis examines how association football evolved in Liverpool in the period before the Great War, and how the sport impacted on the lives of Liverpudlians during this period. Specific consideration is given in the first two chapters to the introduction of football to Liverpool and its progressive commercialisation. The third chapter examines the backgrounds of the city's professional footballers and their relationship with supporters and clubs. The role in Liverpool of amateur, semi-professional, and schoolboy football is considered in the (...)
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  8. End-of-life choices.M. Kleepsies Phillip, J. Miller Pamela & A. Preston Thomas - 2009 - In James L. Werth & Dean Blevins (eds.), Decision making near the end of life: issues, developments, and future directions. New York: Routledge.
     
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    Buford, Thomas O. In Search of a Calling: The College's Role in Shaping Identity. [REVIEW]Robert A. Preston - 1996 - Review of Metaphysics 50 (1):147-148.
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    The Ideology of Order: A Comparative Analysis of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes.Preston T. King - 1974 - London: Allen & Unwin.
    A school of thought traceable to the political writings of Bodin and Hobbes believes that "order" is the cardinal principle which takes precedence over "justice" - which is reduced to conformity. The main concern of this book is to analyse this tradition through study of its progenitors.
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    Ontologies and Worlds in Category Theory: Implications for Neural Systems.Michael John Healy & Thomas Preston Caudell - 2006 - Axiomathes 16 (1-2):165-214.
    We propose category theory, the mathematical theory of structure, as a vehicle for defining ontologies in an unambiguous language with analytical and constructive features. Specifically, we apply categorical logic and model theory, based upon viewing an ontology as a sub-category of a category of theories expressed in a formal logic. In addition to providing mathematical rigor, this approach has several advantages. It allows the incremental analysis of ontologies by basing them in an interconnected hierarchy of theories, with an operation on (...)
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  12. Thomas A. Preston.Margaret Smithpeter Battaglia - 2000 - Hastings Center Report 30 (3):4-5.
     
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    Thomas Wolfe, A Bibliography.George R. Preston - 1945 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 3 (11/12):111.
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    Thomas Hobbes: critical assessments.Preston T. King (ed.) - 1993 - New York: Routledge.
    Thomas Hobbes is arguably the greatest of all English philosophers. In the second half of the twentieth century, he has been the subject of sustained critical attention. Hobbes was capable of powerful argument on virtually any level, whether logical, scriptural or historical. And he has attracted attention in all these areas and more questions of historical method, language and linguistics, metaphysics, ethics, law, politics, science and religion. Hobbes has been examined from a great variety of perspectives as an ethical (...)
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  15. Success-First Decision Theories.Preston Greene - 2018 - In Arif Ahmed (ed.), Newcomb's Problem. Cambridge University Press. pp. 115–137.
    The standard formulation of Newcomb's problem compares evidential and causal conceptions of expected utility, with those maximizing evidential expected utility tending to end up far richer. Thus, in a world in which agents face Newcomb problems, the evidential decision theorist might ask the causal decision theorist: "if you're so smart, why ain’cha rich?” Ultimately, however, the expected riches of evidential decision theorists in Newcomb problems do not vindicate their theory, because their success does not generalize. Consider a theory that allows (...)
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    Thomas Kuhn, a Philosophical History for Our Times. By Steve Fuller.John Miles Preston - 2003 - The European Legacy 8 (6):833-833.
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    Thomas Kuhn's revolution: An historical philosophy of science – by James A. Marcum.John Preston - 2007 - Ratio 20 (3):352–354.
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    Thomas Kuhn's Revolution: An Historical Philosophy of Science – By James A. Marcum. [REVIEW]John Preston - 2007 - Ratio 20 (3):352-354.
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    Kuhn, instrumentalism, and the progress of science.John Preston - 2003 - Social Epistemology 17 (2-3):259-265.
    Steve Fuller seeks to blame Kuhn for the present state of the philosophy of science. It has become ‘Kuhniferous’, he argues, both in structure and in content. I begin by taking issue with this judgement, suggesting that Kuhn wasn’t as influential as his realist and naturalist opponents. I then proceed to argue that Fuller fails to clinch one of his central charges, that Kuhn disconnected the philosophical defence of scientific progress from any substantive ends of science. Kuhn has a story (...)
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    Worse than the Disease: Pitfalls of Medical Progress. Diana B. Dutton, Thomas A. Preston, Nancy E. Pfund.Ellen B. Koch - 1989 - Isis 80 (4):725-726.
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    Reviews of science as salvation: A modern myth and its meaning, Mary Midgley, 1994. London, Routledge X +256pp., Hb 04 15062713, £35; pb 04 15107733, £8.99 philosophical naturalism, David Papineau, 1993 oxford, Basil Blackwell XII +219pp., Hb 0631189025, £40; pb 0631189033, £14.99 F. H. Bradley, writings on logic and metaphysics, James W. Allard & guy stock , 1994. Oxford, clarendon press XV+357pp, hb 0-198-24445-2, £40.00; pb 0-198-24438-X, £14.95 invariance and heuristics: Essays in honour of Heinz post, Steven French & Harmke Kamminga , 1993 boston studies in the philosophy of science, vol. 148 kluwer academic publishers, dordrecht beyond reason: Essays on the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend, Gonzalo Munévar , 1991. Dordrecht, kluwer academic publishers XXI + 535pp., Hb, isbn 0-7923-1272-4, £104.20 world changes: Thomas Kuhn and the nature of science, Paul Horwich , 1993. Cambridge, ma, Bradford books/mit press VI + 356pp., Pb, isbn 0262581388, £14.95 realism rescued: How scientific. [REVIEW]W. Jones, James Brown, W. Mander, Wladyslaw Krajewski & John Preston - 1995 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 9 (2):157-188.
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    The role of school performance in narrowing gender gaps in the formation of STEM aspirations: a cross-national study.Allison Mann, Joscha Legewie & Thomas A. DiPrete - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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    Ethical Issues in Drug Testing, Approval and Pricing: The Clot-Dissolving Drugs.Thomas Preston & Baruch Brody - 1996 - Hastings Center Report 26 (1):42.
    Book reviewed in this article: Ethical Issues in Drug Testing, Approval and Pricing: The Clot‐Dissolving Drugs. By Baruch Brody.
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    Unfulfilled renown: Thomas Preston and the anomalous Zeeman effect.D. Weaire & S. O'Connor - 1987 - Annals of Science 44 (6):617-644.
    When leading spectroscopists in Europe and America were engaged, during 1897, in exploring the recently-discovered Zeeman Effect, they were overtaken by a relatively obscure phsicist working in Dublin. Thomas Preston had previously been known only for his excellent textbooks. His achievement in discovering the Anomalous Zeeman Effect was immediately recognized, but his untimely death has deprived posterity until now of a full account of his life and qualities.
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    How to Incorporate Non-Epistemic Values into a Theory of Classification.Thomas A. C. Reydon & Marc Ereshefsky - 2022 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (1):1-28.
    Non-epistemic values play important roles in classificatory practice, such that philosophical accounts of kinds and classification should be able to accommodate them. Available accounts fail to do so, however. Our aim is to fill this lacuna by showing how non-epistemic values feature in scientific classification, and how they can be incorporated into a philosophical theory of classification and kinds. To achieve this, we present a novel account of kinds and classification, discuss examples from biological classification where non-epistemic values play decisive (...)
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    American Politics.Thomas B. Preston - 1891 - The Monist 2 (1):41-50.
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    Searching for Darwinism in Generalized Darwinism.Thomas A. C. Reydon & Markus Scholz - 2015 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 66 (3):561-589.
    While evolutionary thinking is increasingly becoming popular in fields of investigation outside the biological sciences, it remains unclear how helpful it is there and whether it actually yields good explanations of the phenomena under study. Here we examine the ontology of a recent approach to applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, the generalized Darwinism approach proposed by Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen. We examine the ontology of populations in biology and in GD, and argue that biological evolutionary theory sets ontological criteria (...)
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    Regulating Nanomaterials: A Case for Hybrid Governance.Thomas A. Hemphill - 2016 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 36 (4):219-228.
    Despite their growing usage in commercial and industrial applications, nanomaterials have yet to be been thoroughly researched as to their potential health, safety, and environmental risk to human life after incorporation into new product improvement, development, design, and manufacturing processes. Identifying the appropriate governance framework for effective risk assessment analysis of toxicological risk to human beings—specifically manufacturing employees and consumers—and other living organisms, resulting from the development and application of these nanotechnology-based products, has yet to be scientifically determined. With major (...)
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    Thought Without a Thinking Subject; or, Karl Popper as Film-Philosopher.A. Thomas - forthcoming - .
    The most interesting, and problematic, claim made by film-philosophy, for me, is the proposition that film thinks. This claim is interesting because it asserts that film has something philosophical to offer that philosophy itself lacks. It is problematic because we tend to think that where there is thinking, there must be a someone doing that thinking. And whatever film is, it is not a someone. This paper brings Karl Poppers model of objective knowledge what he calls knowledge in the absence (...)
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    Generalizations and kinds in natural science: the case of species.Thomas A. C. Reydon - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37 (2):230-255.
    Species in biology are traditionally perceived as kinds of organisms about which explanatory and predictive generalizations can be made, and biologists commonly use species in this manner. This perception of species is, however, in stark contrast with the currently accepted view that species are not kinds or classes at all, but individuals. In this paper I investigate the conditions under which the two views of species might be held simultaneously. Specifically, I ask whether upon acceptance of an ontology of species (...)
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    XVI. How Can A Process Ontology Aid Philosophical Theology?Thomas A. F. Kelly - 2009 - In Mark Dibben & Rebecca Newton (eds.), Applied Process Thought II: Following a Trail Ablaze. De Gruyter. pp. 361-376.
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  32. Early Thinking about Likings and Dislikings.Thomas A. Blackson - 2022 - Ancient Philosophy Today 4 (2):176-195.
    In Plato’s Protagoras, Socrates argues that ‘the many’ are confused about the experience they describe as ‘being overcome by pleasure’. They think the cause is ‘something other than ignorance’. He argues it follows from what they believe that the cause is ‘ignorance’ and ‘false belief’. I show that his argument depends on a premise he does not introduce but they should deny: that when someone is overcome by pleasure, the desire stems from a belief. To explain why Plato does not (...)
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    Psychopathy as a Scientifc Kind: On Usefulness and Underpinnings.Thomas A. C. Reydon - 2022 - In Luca Malatesti, John McMillan & Predrag Šustar (eds.), Psychopathy: Its Uses, Validity and Status. Cham: Springer. pp. 169-187.
    This chapter examines the status of psychopathy as a scientific kind. I argue that the debate on the question whether psychopathy is a scientific kind as it is conducted at present (i.e., by asking whether psychopathy is a natural kind), is misguided. It relies too much on traditional philosophical views of what natural kinds (or: legitimate scientific kinds) are and how such kinds perform epistemic roles in the sciences. The paper introduces an alternative approach to the question what scientific (or: (...)
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    Blameworthiness, slips, and the obvious need to pay enough attention: an internalist response to capacitarians.Thomas A. Yates - 2023 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1):1-25.
    Capacitarianism says that an agent can be non-derivatively blameworthy for wrongdoing if at the time of their conduct the agent lacked awareness of the wrong-making features of their conduct but had the capacity to be aware of those features. In this paper, I raise three objections to capacitarianism in relation to its verdict of the culpability of so-called “slips” and use these objections to support a rival (“accessibility internalist”) view which requires awareness of wrong-making features for non-derivative blameworthiness. The objections (...)
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    On Equity and Inequity in Thomas Hobbes's Dialogue.Thomas A. Corbin - 2022 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 60 (4):518-539.
    The concept of equity is clearly important in Thomas Hobbes's philosophy. In his writings he repeatedly employs it in significant load bearing ways, particularly in the areas of civil law and governance. Equity is, however, not directly addressed in a sustained way in his core works and—perhaps even more frustratingly—it is often applied in ways which ask more questions about the concept than they answer. This presents an impediment to accurately understanding what equity really means to Hobbes. His late (...)
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    Hume and Causality: Towards Substituting a 'Juster Definition'.Thomas A. F. Kelly - 2002 - Maynooth Philosophical Papers 1:43-50.
  37. Recasting Social Democracy in Europe: A Nested Games Explanation of Strategic Adjustment in Political Parties.Thomas A. Koelble - 1992 - Politics and Society 20 (1):51-70.
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    Deflating the De-Extinction Debates: Domination and Artifactuality are Not the Problem.Thomas A. C. Reydon - 2022 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 25 (2):113-115.
    In his article, Considering de-extinction, Katz (2022) mounts a two-pronged criticism of de-extinction efforts as elements of environmental policy. First, Katz argues that there is no positive case...
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    How can science be well-ordered in times of crisis? Learning from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.Thomas A. C. Reydon - 2020 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42 (4):1-4.
    The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic constituted a crisis situation in which science was very far from Kitcher’s ideal of well-ordered science. I suggest that this could and should have been different. Kitcher’s ideal should play a role in assessing the allocation of research resources in future crisis situations, as it provides a way to balance highly divergent interests and incorporate the common good into decision-making processes on research.
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    A Case for Effective Business Association Membership Codes of Ethics and Conduct.Thomas A. Hemphill - 2023 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 42 (1):55-78.
    A business association is a collaborative organization founded and funded by businesses or business owners and usually represents companies operating in an industry or across industries. Business associations often institute a code of ethics, code of practice, and/or code of conduct that guide member company policy and behavior. Specifically, the paper will thoroughly define codes of ethics, conduct, and practice; their relationship to each other is delineated and explained; examples of three business associations’ codes of ethics and/or conduct are explored; (...)
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  41. Believing for Practical Reasons in Plato’s _Gorgias_ .Thomas A. Blackson - 2023 - Rhizomata 11 (1):105-125.
    In Plato’s Gorgias, Socrates says to Callicles that “your love of the people, existing in your soul, stands against me, but if we closely examine these same matters often and in a better way, you will be persuaded” (513c7–d1). I argue for an interpretation that explains how Socrates understands Callicles’s love of the people to stand against him and why he believes examination often and in a better way will persuade Callicles.
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    Reviewing the review: a qualitative assessment of the peer review process in surgical journals.Thomas A. Aloia, Charles M. Balch, Jeffrey E. Lee, Mark S. Roh, O. James Garden, Keith D. Lillemoe, Kevin E. Behrns, Barbara L. Bass & Catherine H. Davis - 2018 - Research Integrity and Peer Review 3 (1).
    BackgroundDespite rapid growth of the scientific literature, no consensus guidelines have emerged to define the optimal criteria for editors to grade submitted manuscripts. The purpose of this project was to assess the peer reviewer metrics currently used in the surgical literature to evaluate original manuscript submissions.MethodsManuscript grading forms for 14 of the highest circulation general surgery-related journals were evaluated for content, including the type and number of quantitative and qualitative questions asked of peer reviewers. Reviewer grading forms for the seven (...)
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    Generalized darwinism as modest unification.Thomas A. C. Reydon - 2021 - American Philosophical Quarterly 58 (1):79-94.
    This paper examines the nature of Hodgson and Knudsen’s version of Generalized Darwinism, asking to what extent it has explanatory force. The paper develops two criteria for potential explanatory transfer of theories between disciplines, and argues that Generalized Darwinism does not meet these. The paper proposes that Hodgson and Knudsen’s version of Generalized Darwinism is best understood as a research program aimed at modest unificationism sensu Kitcher, that provides a heuristic perspective to guide research, but does not produce actual evolutionary (...)
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  44. The American Church Experience: A Concise History.Thomas A. Askew & Richard V. Pierard - 2004
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    Evidence and Argumentation in Linguistics.Thomas A. Perry (ed.) - 1980 - De Gruyter.
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    A Theory of Perception.W. Preston Warren - 1972 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 33 (1):136-137.
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    Relatively robust decisions.Thomas A. Weber - 2022 - Theory and Decision 94 (1):35-62.
    It is natural for humans to judge the outcome of a decision under uncertainty as a percentage of an ex-post optimal performance. We propose a robust decision-making framework based on a relative performance index. It is shown that if the decision maker’s preferences satisfy quasisupermodularity, single-crossing, and a nondecreasing log-differences property, the worst-case relative performance index can be represented as the lower envelope of two extremal performance ratios. The latter is used to characterize the agent’s optimal robust decision, which has (...)
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  48. A causal holist critique Thomas A Boylan and Paschal F O'Gorman.Thomas A. Boylan - 1999 - In Steve Fleetwood (ed.), Critical realism in economics: development and debate. New York: Routledge. pp. 137.
  49. Coming To: A Theology of Beauty.Thomas A. Idinopulos - 1973 - Process Studies 3 (2):118-120.
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    Ethnobiological kinds and material grounding: comments on Ludwig.Thomas A. C. Reydon & Marc Ereshefsky - 2024 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 14 (1):1-10.
    In a recent article, David Ludwig proposed to reorient the debate on natural kinds away from inquiring into the naturalness of kinds and toward elucidating the materiality of kinds. This article responds to Ludwig’s critique of a recently proposed account of kinds and classification, the Grounded Functionality Account, against which Ludwig offsets his own account, and criticizes Ludwig’s proposal to shift focus from naturalness to materiality in the philosophy of kinds and classification.
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