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Metaphysics I
Metaphysics I is a course currently taught in the Faculty of Philosophy, NUIM. It attempts to answer three questions: 'What is metaphysics?', 'What happened as metaphysics was Christianised?' and 'What happenerd as metaphysics was Modernized?', while discussing texts of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein
Moral Philosophy I
Moral Philosophy I is a course currently given at the Faculty of Philosophy, NUIM. It defines ethics as what we think it is appropriate to do, and consequently analyses what it is to do something (action theory); what it is to consider something appropriate (value theory) and who 'we' are (community theory). It does so by treating immigration as a moral problem
Magnetic phase diagram of MnSi inferred from magnetization and ac susceptibility
We report simultaneous measurements of the magnetization and the ac
susceptibility across the magnetic phase diagram of single-crystal MnSi. In our
study we explore the importance of the excitation frequency, excitation
amplitude, sample shape, and crystallographic orientation. The susceptibility,
dM/dH, calculated from the magnetization, is dominated by pronounced maxima at
the transition from the helical to the conical and the conical to the skyrmion
lattice phase. The maxima in dM/dH are not tracked by the ac susceptibility,
which in addition varies sensitively with the excitation amplitude and
frequency at the transition from the conical to the skyrmion lattice phase. The
same differences between dM/dH and the ac susceptibility exist for Mn1-xFexSi
(x=0.04) and Fe1-xCoxSi (x=0.20). Taken together our study establishes
consistently for all major crystallographic directions the existence of a
single pocket of the skyrmion lattice phase in MnSi, suggestive of a universal
characteristic of all B20 transition metal compounds with helimagnetic order.Comment: 19 pages, 20 figure
Stein's Phenomenology of the Body: The Constitution of the Human Being between Description of Experience and Social Construction
Stein’s phenomenology is one that is particularly sensitive to intersubjective constitution, and thus her constitutional analysis of the body is one that allows for an analysis of the body as ‘socially constructed’ (in so far as one understands this term to mean the same as ‘inter-subjectively constituted’). The purpose of this paper is to give an account of Stein’s phenomenology of the body as it appears in On the Problem of Empathy, her constitutional analysis being explicitly articulated in this work as including both subjective and intersubjective layers
Stein's Phenomenology of the Body: The Constitution of the Human Being between Description of Experience and Social Construction
Stein’s phenomenology is one that is particularly sensitive to intersubjective constitution, and thus her constitutional analysis of the body is one that allows for an analysis of the body as ‘socially constructed’ (in so far as one understands this term to mean the same as ‘inter-subjectively constituted’). The purpose of this paper is to give an account of Stein’s phenomenology of the body as it appears in On the Problem of Empathy, her constitutional analysis being explicitly articulated in this work as including both subjective and intersubjective layers
Study Guide to Edith Stein's Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities
Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities1 was written just after Stein resigned from the post as Husserl's assistant in 1917. Her frustration with Husserl's working methods, and with certain aspects of Ideas II which she worked on as his assistant, contributed to her decision, as did her determination to give something of her own to philosophy. She set out to solve some of the problems she would have liked to see Husserl address in the constitution-analyses of Ideas II at a level more responsive to intersubjectivit
Review: Le Mythe Bioéthique Edited by Gérard Mémeteau and Lucien Israël, Paris, Bassano, 1999, 192 pages, 132 FF.
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A Report from Denmark: Anonymity and informed consent in artificial procreation
The practice of informed consent in biomedicine is so widely spread that it must be
considered the most important principle within bioethics, and the most universally
appealed to within recent legislation. There seems to be a consensus as to its value
in research on autonomous persons, but also a problem concerning its application
when dealing with people having a serious mental, social or even physical
disability.
Within the field of artificial procreation there are even more problems.
Informed written consent is often demanded from anonymous donors of gametes
in order to ensure their consent to the legal and moral consequences of their
anonymity. The child resulting from the artificial procreation, on the contrary,
cannot consent to, nor be informed before being conceived, of the secrecy laid on
the identity of its genetic parents. Some countries resolve this problem by allowing
the children, when they reach their majority, to obtain some information pertaining
to the health or the identity of their genetic parents.
This presents ethical problems. It can be argued that the anonymity of the
parents chiefly affects the children, so that an agreement on this point among
parents, doctors and others must be regarded as invalid. The paper will argue
that a law ensuring the complete anonymity of the parents is disregarding the
informed consent and the interests of the children resulting from artificial
procreation, and is thus doing more damage to society than good
A Report from Denmark: Anonymity and informed consent in artificial procreation
The practice of informed consent in biomedicine is so widely spread that it must be
considered the most important principle within bioethics, and the most universally
appealed to within recent legislation. There seems to be a consensus as to its value
in research on autonomous persons, but also a problem concerning its application
when dealing with people having a serious mental, social or even physical
disability.
Within the field of artificial procreation there are even more problems.
Informed written consent is often demanded from anonymous donors of gametes
in order to ensure their consent to the legal and moral consequences of their
anonymity. The child resulting from the artificial procreation, on the contrary,
cannot consent to, nor be informed before being conceived, of the secrecy laid on
the identity of its genetic parents. Some countries resolve this problem by allowing
the children, when they reach their majority, to obtain some information pertaining
to the health or the identity of their genetic parents.
This presents ethical problems. It can be argued that the anonymity of the
parents chiefly affects the children, so that an agreement on this point among
parents, doctors and others must be regarded as invalid. The paper will argue
that a law ensuring the complete anonymity of the parents is disregarding the
informed consent and the interests of the children resulting from artificial
procreation, and is thus doing more damage to society than good
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