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The Heterogeneity of Bioethics: Discussions of Harm, Abortion, and Conceptual Clarity of Bioethical Terminology

This issue of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy exemplifies the diverse range of topics that fall under the scope of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. The eight essays in this number ... this number challenge many of the underlying assumptions made in the philosophy of medicine, health care, the abortion debate, the nature of harm, disability, the moral status of human beings, and

Nonprofits, Taxes, and Speech

choosing the specific ends and means to pursue, thereby promoting diversity and pluralism. But current law withholds some of these tax benefits if a nonprofit engages in certain types of political speech ... these political speech restrictions in various ways. And some commentators have proposed denying tax benefits to groups engaged in other types of disfavored speech, including hate speech and fake news

Technology Justice: Taxation of our Collective and Cumulative Cognitive Inheritance

workers, (2) support the economy, and (3) maintain political stability. Inspired by Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice, this twenty-first century Article argues that “Technology Justice” requires that humans ... technology titans economic and political winners,9 but for workers, these intelligent machines may render average humans with ordinary skills as having “zero economic value.”10 To address and ameliorate the

Democracy, Populism, and Concentrated Interests

ideologists doubt that claim, however. They are convinced that democracies are captured by a small elite that controls most of the political power. The declared aim of populists is to give political power back ... populists is to give political power back to the majority of society. Despite that declared aim, this Article argues that the actions taken by populists have exactly the opposite outcome. By downgrading

Contextualism vs Non-Contextualism in Political Philosophy A Contribution to the Debate on Criticism in the Political Sciences

The author’s aim is to analyse the problem of criticism in the context of political sciences, in particular in the context of political philosophy. The issue is considered in the light of two basic ... departure for critical attitudes in political philosophy.. political philosophy; political science; criticism; historism; contextualism; presentism - Piotr Świercz vidual propositions that have been

Disability, Transition Costs, and the Things That Really Matter

Crossref Search ADS WorldCat   Lotz , M. 2006 . Feinberg, Mills and the child’s right to an open future . Journal of Social Philosophy 37 ( 4 ): 537 – 51 . Google Scholar ...   Moller , D. 2011 . Wealth, disability, and happiness . Philosophy & Public Affairs 39 ( 2 ): 177 – 206 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS WorldCat   Murray , C. D. 2009

Nonprofit Law as the Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill

administrator of Digital - * Professor of Law and Political Science, UCLA School of Law. Thanks to Sammy Zeino for excellent research assistance and Lynn McClelland and Elyse Meyers for superb library ... political process. As with the rest of her scholarship, her work is meticulously researched, crisply written (as one might expect of a former college instructor of Freshman Composition), and persuasively

Law and Philosophy: From Skepticism to Value Theory

others. Perhaps the most fundamental division among basic theories about the nature of law is whether the very concept of law presupposes connections to morality or to political philosophy. The topic is ... argument against him, much less to a demonstration that he was grievously wrong. By the late 1960s, however, academic philosophy was beginning to return to normative ethical and political theory. The

Taxing Greed

concept of greed. In doing so, the Article first surveys the history of greed and its meaning, and draws on political philosophy and economic literature to provide a working definition of greed. The Article ... towards greed. This makes it difficult to define or incorporate greed into any discussion of policy or law. However, a careful evaluation of political and economic philosophy, together with literature from

A More Capacious Conception of Church

. But those benefits and protections come with cost both to individual churches (by making these organizations susceptible to tax shelters and political activity shelters) and to our democratic order (by ... associational test and that the U.S. Government Accountability Office review the political activities of churches). 6. We recognize that “church” is too narrow a term to describe the range of religious

On Drugs

trend within philosophy of science toward pluralism for a number of scientific concepts from a range of domains, including “concept” itself (e.g., Dupré, 1999; Stotz, Griffiths, and Knight, 2004; Weiskopf ... recreational drug concepts were also part of our inquiry, then a pluralistic view of drugs might seem a reasonable starting point. Currently, however, there is no existing body of work in philosophy that

The (Ir)relevance of Positivist Arguments for Originalism

Judgments, 8 PHILOSOPHY COMPASS 457, 457 (2013) (assessing the common assumption that jurisprudential theories should directly bear on first-order legal judgments). 3. RONALD DWORKIN, LAW’S EMPIRE 1 (1986 ... (2015). LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW approach is that, because Hart’s view grounds legal content on merely descriptive social facts, moral/political disputes can largely be avoided in identifying the

Some Problems with Public Reason in John Rawls's Political Liberalism

than does Rawls, I do not doubt the value of either abstract political philosophy or of contractarian analysis that does not depend on any particular theory of the good. I have no "global" doubts about ... . at 214. 16. Id. at 227. These could be constitutional essentials even if there were no written constitution guaranteeing them. 17. IM.at 228-29. principle of political philosophy must be one that

Patočka and Hegel´'s Philosophy of the History of Philosophy

Hegel’s history of philosophy has irreplaceable place within the whole of his philosophizing and this fact grounds its philosophical importance. It has become the organ of the self-knowing mind in ... 2353-9445 Patočka and Hegel's philosophy of the history of philosophy 0 Vladimír Leško , Prof. PhD , is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, of

Every Story Has a Beginning, But What About an End?: Disney’s Expiring Copyrights

our culture, and worsens economic and political inequality.”18 They believe that Mickey Mouse and other beloved Disney characters should not have their copyright protection terms extended and should ... copyright duration, again, and records show that the Disney Political Action Committee (PAC) donated a total of $149,612 in direct campaign contributions to the legislators LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW

A Political Perspective of Tort Law

at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review by an authorized administrator of Digital - A POLITICAL ... institutions which police instead of service their clientele. Thus, mass society places human beings in a situation where they, as a mass, are dependent upon social, political, and economic institutions for

Defamation 2.0

. In addition, the link between misinformation and political violence is now well-established, and defamation lawsuits offer the possibility of holding not only the media accountable but also social ... DISINFORMATION ................. 14 A. The Rise of Misinformation and the Big Lie ................... 16 B. The Rise of Conspiracy Theories and Political Violence

Political Parties and Judicial Elections

worse. He believed it would allow unqualified candidates who lacked the support of their political parties to get elected.4 While political party involvement in judicial elections has long had its ... detractors, there are positive statements that can be made. For example, political parties may provide campaign workers for judicial candidates. They can also help provide campaign funding. In fact, according

Sprawozdanie ze szkoły letniej „The Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind”, Kopenhaga, 13-17.08.2018 r.

Abstract: In this work, the author reports on the ninth edition of the Summer School of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, which took place in Copenhagen on 13-17 August, 2018. At the beginning of ... lectures and ten papers presented each day. phenomenology; philosophy of mind; summer school - Wspomniane centrum jest placówką niezwykłą, której sylwetkę warto zaprezentować w kilku zdaniach. Celem

Situating a Feminist Criticism of John Rawls's Political Liberalism

feminist criticisms. Feminists have argued that liberal political theories, particularly those in the social contract tradition, are overly abstract and individualistic. Moreover, they fail to acknowledge ... the profound effect gender structures have on our identities and social roles. Furthermore, liberal political theories rely on a distinction between public and private life that entrenches sexist and