Health Fetishism Among The Nacirema: A Fugue On Jenny Reardon’s The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge After The Genome (Chicago University Press, 2017) And Isabelle Stengers’ Another Science Is Possible: A Manifesto For Slow Science (Polity Press, 2018) [PDF]
, 2018 Personalized medicine has become a goal of genomics and of health policy makers. This article reviews two recent books that are highly critical of this approach, finding their arguments very thoughtful and important. According to Stengers, biology’s rush
Gilbert, Scott F.
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AFFIRMATIONS AFTER GOD: FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE AND RICHARD DAWKINS ON ATHEISM
Zygon, 2012 . In this essay, I compare the atheism of Friedrich Nietzsche with that of Richard Dawkins. My purpose is to describe certain differences in their respective atheisms with the intent of showing that Nietzsche's atheism contains a richer and fuller ...
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The Failure of New Atheism Morality [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2015 New atheists, such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, generally speaking, are committed to two main beliefs. The first is scientism, which is the view that only science can give us complete and reliable knowledge of reality.
Robert A. Delfino
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Animal welfare research is fascinating, ethical, and useful-but how can it be more rigorous? [PDF]
BMC Biol, 2023 Mason GJ.
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Dennis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers : Biology and Ideology: From Descartes to Dawkins [PDF]
, 2013 Science has always strived for objectivity, for a ‘‘view from nowhere’’ that is not marred by ideology or personal preferences. That is a lofty ideal toward which perhaps it makes sense to strive, but it is hardly the reality. This collection of thirteen
Pigliucci, Massimo
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Em busca de uma fundamentação para a Memética Searching for a foundations of memetics
Trans/Form/Ação, 2013 O conceito de memes surgiu em 1976 com Richard Dawkins, como um análogo cultural dos genes. Deveria ser possível estudar a cultura através do processo de evolução por seleção natural de memes, ou seja, de comportamentos, ideias e conceitos.
Gustavo Leal-Toledo
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PromptThis essay introduces a circulation analysis assignment, blending together insights from multimodal composition, remix/assemblage pedagogy, and circulation studies to encourage writing transfer.
Travis Maynard
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Consistent Vegetarianism and the Suffering of Wild Animals [PDF]
, 2016 Ethical consequentialist vegetarians believe that farmed animals have lives that are worse than non-existence. In this paper, I sketch out an argument that wild animals have worse lives than farmed animals, and that consistent vegetarians should ...
Sittler-Adamczewski, Thomas M.
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SEXUAL ATTRACTION: A TEST CASE OF SOCIOBIOLOGICAL THEORY
Zygon, 1984 . A study of the place of human sexuality in religious systems indicates a possible universal stress on sexual attraction. This could be explained by using the theories of Richard Dawkins and other sociobiologists: the philandering male and the coy ...
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