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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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    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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    Letters.Thomas A. Preston, Martha Jurchack, Edward P. Lewis & Howard Brody - 1994 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 5 (2):173-175.
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    The Personal as Political.Thomas A. Preston - 1996 - Hastings Center Report 26 (5):2-3.
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  6. 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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  7. End-of-life choices.M. Kleepsies Phillip, J. Miller Pamela & A. Preston Thomas - 2008 - In James L. Werth & Dean Blevins (eds.), Decision Making Near the End of Life: Issues, Development, and Future Directions. Brunner-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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    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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  10. Thomas A. Preston.Margaret Smithpeter Battaglia - 2000 - Hastings Center Report 30 (3):4-5.
     
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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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    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 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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  14. 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's Revolution: An Historical Philosophy of Science – By James A. Marcum. [REVIEW]John Preston - 2007 - Ratio 20 (3):352-354.
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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 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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    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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  19. 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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    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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    Embryology and Disorders of Sexual Development.Thomas A. Marino - 2010 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 53 (4):481-490.
    In 2006, based on the advice of 50 international experts, the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology issued a consensus statement on the nomenclature and management of children who have a phenotype that is neither typical male nor female (Lee et al. 2006). Responding to a decade of criticism over the terminology that had been in place, including such terms as intersex, hermaphrodite, or pseudohermaphrodite, they proposed to call those conditions in which the patient (...)
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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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    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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  24. 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. Routledge. pp. 137.
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    American Politics.Thomas B. Preston - 1891 - The Monist 2 (1):41-50.
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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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  27. Pragmatism and Purpose Essays Presented to Thomas A. Goudge /Edited by L.W. Sumner, John G. Slater, Fred Wilson. --. --.Thomas A. Goudge, John G. Slater, Fred Wilson & L. W. Sumner - 1981
     
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  28. Philosophy of Religion a Book of Readings. Edited by George L. Abernethy and Thomas A. Langford. --.George L. Abernethy & Thomas A. Langford - 1962 - Macmillan.
     
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    How to Fix Kind Membership: A Problem for HPC Theory and a Solution.Thomas A. C. Reydon - 2009 - Philosophy of Science 76 (5):724-736.
    Natural kinds are often contrasted with other kinds of scientific kinds, especially functional kinds, because of a presumed categorical difference in explanatory value: supposedly, natural kinds can ground explanations, while other kinds of kinds cannot. I argue against this view of natural kinds by examining a particular type of explanation—mechanistic explanation—and showing that functional kinds do the same work there as traditionally recognized natural kinds are supposed to do in “standard” scientific explanations. Breaking down this categorical distinction between traditional natural (...)
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    Speaking of Apes: A Critical Anthology of Two-Way Communication with Man.Thomas A. Sebeok & Jean Umiker-Sebeok - 1980 - Plenum Press.
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    A review essay on historical consciousness and 'the genesis of God' according to Thomas Altizer.Thomas A. Carlson - 1999 - Sophia 38 (1):99-105.
    The Genesis of God: A Theological Genealogy. By Thomas J.J. Altizer. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993. pp.200.
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    Patient-centered medicine: transforming the clinical method.Moira A. Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, W. Wayne Weston, Ian R. McWhinney, Carol L. McWilliam & Thomas R. Freeman (eds.) - 2014 - London: Radcliffe Publishing.
    It describes and explains the patient-centered model examining and evaluating qualitative and quantitative research. It comprehensively covers the evolution and the six interactive components of the patient-centered clinical method, taking the reader through the relationships between the patient and doctor and the patient and clinician. All the editors are professors in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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  33. Freedom, Responsibility and Desire in Kantian Ethics.Thomas A. Wassmer - 1958 - The Thomist 21:320.
  34. The Kantian Unity of Pure Apperception.Thomas A. Wassmer - 1961 - The Thomist 24 (1):90.
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    Big ideas for little kids: teaching philosophy through children's literature.Thomas E. Wartenberg - 2014 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Big Ideas for Little Kids includes everything a teacher, a parent, or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book explains why it is important to allow young children access to philosophy during primary-school education. Wartenberg also gives advice on how to construct a "learner-centered" classroom, in which children discuss philosophical issues with one another as they respond to open-ended questions by saying whether they agree (...)
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    Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion - & Vice Versa.Thomas A. Lewis - 2015 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press UK.
    This work argues for the need to close the gap between the fields of the philosophy of religion and religious studies. Thomas A. Lewis takes up what, in recent years, has often been seen as a fundamental reason for excluding religious ethics and philosophy of religion from religious studies: their explicit normativity. Against this presupposition, Lewis argues that normativity is pervasive--not unique to ethics and philosophy of religion--and therefore not a reason to exclude them from religious studies. He bridges (...)
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    Protection or Paternalism? [REVIEW]Thomas Preston - 2012 - Hastings Center Report 26 (1):42-43.
    Book reviewed in this article: Ethical Issues in Drug Testing, Approval and Pricing: The Clot‐Dissolving Drugs. By Baruch Brody.
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    Natural embryo loss—a missed opportunity.Thomas A. Marino - 2008 - American Journal of Bioethics 8 (7):25 – 27.
  39. Social Learning Strategies in Networked Groups.Thomas N. Wisdom, Xianfeng Song & Robert L. Goldstone - 2013 - Cognitive Science 37 (8):1383-1425.
    When making decisions, humans can observe many kinds of information about others' activities, but their effects on performance are not well understood. We investigated social learning strategies using a simple problem-solving task in which participants search a complex space, and each can view and imitate others' solutions. Results showed that participants combined multiple sources of information to guide learning, including payoffs of peers' solutions, popularity of solution elements among peers, similarity of peers' solutions to their own, and relative payoffs from (...)
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  40. Music and music education: Theory and praxis for 'making a difference'.Thomas A. Regelski - 2005 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 37 (1):7–27.
    The ‘music appreciation as contemplation’ paradigm of traditional aesthetics and music education assumes that music exists to be contemplated for itself. The resulting distantiation of music and music education from life creates a legitimation crisis for music education. Failing to make a noteworthy musical difference for society, a politics of advocacy attempts to justify music education. Praxial theories of music, instead, see music as pragmatically social in origin, meaning, and value. A praxial approach to music education stresses that appreciation is (...)
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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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    Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic Ideals.Thomas A. Spragens - 1999 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    In Civic Liberalism, prominent political theorist Thomas A. Spragens, Jr. asserts that most versions of democratic ideals—libertarianism, liberal egalitarianism, difference liberalism, and the liberalism of fear—lead our polity significantly astray. Spragens offers another alternative. He argues that we should recover the multiple and complex aspirations found within the tradition of democratic liberalism and integrate them into a more compelling public philosophy for our time—or what he calls civic liberalism.
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    Why organizational ecology is not a Darwinian research program.Thomas A. C. Reydon & Markus Scholz - 2009 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (3):408-439.
    Organizational ecology is commonly seen as a Darwinian research program that seeks to explain the diversity of organizational structures, properties and behaviors as the product of selection in past social environments in a similar manner as evolutionary biology seeks to explain the forms, properties and behaviors of organisms as consequences of selection in past natural environments. We argue that this explanatory strategy does not succeed because organizational ecology theory lacks an evolutionary mechanism that could be identified as the principal cause (...)
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    Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture.Thomas A. Metzger - 1978 - Philosophy East and West 28 (4):503-509.
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    Doing the wash: an expressive culture and personality study of a joke and its tellers.Thomas A. Burns - 1975 - Philadelphia: R. West. Edited by Inger H. Burns.
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  46. Retrieving the Vivekacudamani : The Poles of Religious Knowing.Thomas A. Forsthoefel - 2002 - Philosophy East and West 52 (3):311-325.
    There are two main inspirations for an analysis of an important post-Śaṇkara text: the recent controversial debate in "Philosophy East and West" concerning the status of anubhava as a pramāṇa for Śaṅkara, and recent scholarship in the epistemology of religious experience that focuses on broader mechanisms of knowing to determine the epistemic significance of religious experience. These projects are combined and extended, and it is argued that the "Vivekacūḍāmaṇi" dances between the poles of "internalism" and "externalism" with considerable social and (...)
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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: Springr. 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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  48. Metaphysical and Epistemological Approaches to Developing a Theory of Artifact Kinds.Thomas A. C. Reydon - 2013 - In Artefact Kinds: Ontology and the Human-made World. Cham: Springer. pp. 125-144.
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    The Inherence Pattern and Descartes' "Ideas".Thomas A. Lennon - 1974 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 12 (1):43.
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  50. How to fix kind membership: A problem for hpc theory and a solution.Thomas A. C. Reydon - 2009 - Philosophy of Science 76 (5):724-736.
    Natural kinds are often contrasted with other kinds of scientific kinds, especially functional kinds, because of a presumed categorical difference in explanatory value: supposedly, natural kinds can ground explanations, while other kinds of kinds cannot. I argue against this view of natural kinds by examining a particular type of explanation—mechanistic explanation—and showing that functional kinds do the same work there as traditionally recognized natural kinds are supposed to do in “standard” scientific explanations. Breaking down this categorical distinction between traditional natural (...)
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