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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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Immortality in Empedocles [PDF]

open access: yesApeiron, 2017
Most of the work for the paper was undertaken in Toronto during a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.The paper examines Empedocles’ attributions of immortality.
Alex Long
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Digital immortality

Communications of the ACM, 2001
Digital immortality, like ordinary immortality, is a continuum from enduring fame at one end to endless experience and learning at the other, stopping just short of endless life . Preserving and transmitting your ideas is one-way immortality : allowing communication with the future. Endless experience and leaning is two-way immortality : allowing “you,”
Gordon Bell, Jim Gray 0001
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Immortalizing the immortal

Nature Genetics, 2002
Despite many attempts to generate them, genuine spermatogonial stem-cell lines have not been available to study the processes of spermatogenesis and meiosis. A new approach may finally have succeeded.
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The (Un)Desirability of Immortality

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, 2020
While most people believe the best possible life they could lead would be an immortal one, so‐called “immortality curmudgeons” disagree. Following Bernard Williams, they argue that, at best, we have no prudential reason to live an immortal life, and at ...
Travis Timmerman
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Here’s to immortality

Nursing Standard, 2005
The news that a 20-year-old woman needed a liver transplant after years of heavy drinking reminded me of Wilfred Owen's poem Anthem for Doomed Youth - a moving reflection on the waste of young lives in the first world war.
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Immortal Fetuses

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2008
“Dissecting Bioethics,” edited by Tuija Takala and Matti Häyry, welcomes contributions on the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of bioethics.The section is dedicated to the idea that words defined by bioethicists and others should not be allowed to imprison people's actual concerns, emotions, and thoughts.
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Scaleability and immortality

ACM SIGMOD Record, 2008
James Nicholas Gray's understanding and experimentation gave him a special perspective. From 1995 his commitment was building indefinitely scalable tools by working on really hard data-intensive application problems with other scientific disciplines. His attention to research for both understanding and use made him a unique researcher. Jim
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Facing Immortality

International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2005
This study is primarily a call to philosophers to attend the concerns raised by the increasing possibility of indefinitely extended human life. While these concerns are largely moral and socio-political, questions arising from this possibility are seen to involve other philosophical areas, including epistemology.
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