Equal Rights for Zombies?: Phenomenal Consciousness and Responsible Agency

Intuitively, moral responsibility requires conscious awareness of what one is doing, and why one is doing it, but what kind of awareness is at issue? Neil Levy argues that phenomenal consciousness—the qualitative feel of conscious sensations—is entirely unnecessary for moral responsibility. He claims that only access consciousness—the state in which information (e.g., from perception or memory) is available to an array of mental systems (e.g., such that an agent can deliberate and act upon that information)—is relevant to moral responsibility. I argue that numerous ethical, epistemic, and neuroscientific considerations entail that the capacity for phenomenal consciousness is necessary for moral responsibility. I focus in particular on considerations inspired by P. F. Strawson, who puts a range of qualitative moral emotions—the reactive attitudes—front and center in the analysis of moral responsibility

Revisando la clasificación infraespecífica de Xerodraba patagonica (Brassicaceae) bajo diferentes fuentes de evidencia

Xerodraba (5 spp.) es un género de Brassicaceae restringido a los Andes del Sur y la Patagonia, del cual X. patagonica incluye la subsp. patagonica y la subsp. pycnophylloides. Esta última ha sido reducida recientemente de especie a subespecie por su similitud morfológica con la primera. Sin embargo, para una clasificación taxonómica adecuada de estos nombres (dos especies, una especie con dos subespecies, o una especie sin subespecies), se necesitan estudios adicionales, realizando análisis de diferentes tipos de datos. Aquí, aportamos evidencias para una nueva clasificación de estos nombres contrastando los resultados obtenidos de diferentes análisis filogenéticos, de nicho ecológico y morfológicos. Para ello, analizamos árboles de genes y especies utilizando datos de nrITS y plástidos, comparamos el nicho climático y el rango geográfico de ambas subespecies, y analizamos la variación morfológica asociada a estos nombres. Basándonos en los resultados obtenidos, decidimos sinonimizar a la subsp. pycnophylloides con X. patagonica.Xerodraba (5 spp.) is a genus of Brassicaceae restricted to the Southern Andes and Patagonia, of which X. patagonica includes subsp. patagonica and subsp. pycnophylloides. The latter was recently reduced from a species to subspecies based on morphological similarity to the former. However, for an adequate taxonomic ranking of these names (two species, one species with two subspecies, or one without subspecies), additional studies are needed, conducting analyses of different types of data. Here, we provide evidence for a new classification of these names by contrasting results obtained from different phylogenetic, ecological niche, and morphological analyses. For this purpose, we analyzed gene and species trees using nrITS and plastid data, compared the climatic niche and geographic range of both subspecies, and analyzed morphological variation associated with these names. Based on the results obtained, we here decided to synonymize subsp. pycnophylloides with X. patagonica.Fil: Salariato, Diego Leonel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion; ArgentinaFil: Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan. Missouri Botanical Garden; Estados Unido

Scientometrics Study of Research productivity of Delhi University (DU), Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) ,

Scientometrics studies have now a days become popular to evaluate and rank research productivity of authors, institutions and universities globally. Number of such studies has been published in various journals, conference proceedings, review papers, book chapters, and research reports. The study was taken to analysis research productivity of University of Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia and Jawaharlal Nehru University during the last 30 years

Polypsecadium gilliesii (Romanczuk) Al-Shehbaz

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Polypsecadium gilliesii (Romanczuk) Al-Shehbaz

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Polypsecadium gilliesii (Romanczuk) Al-Shehbaz

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