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3 Feb 2013, 8:47 am by Gavin Enck
My name is Gavin Enck and I am going to be the guest blogger for the month of February. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 6:47 am by Gavin Enck
It is generally accepted that a person is permitted to use a drug to augment their creativity ranging from coffee, alcohol, to psychotropic and hallucinogenic drugs. People using drugs often create beautiful paintings, pieces of music, or write great literature.... [read post]
13 Feb 2013, 2:11 pm by Gavin Enck
In certain areas, such as the neuroscience of moral judgment, philosophers have a tendency to overextend the claims that recent research and advances in neuroscience are taken to support. Yet, in other areas, such as metaphysics of free will or... [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 2:16 pm by Gavin Enck
(This is a work in progress) In medicine a patient has both the ethical and legal right to refuse medical treatment even if denying such treatment are to lead to the patient’s death. At least one of the conditions for... [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 12:58 pm by Gavin Enck
(work in progress) Imagine an ideal virtuous person named Edith. She not only possesses certain virtues, but also has the practical wisdom to act accordingly in a given situation for the right reasons. Edith (or any person like her) has... [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 4:14 am by Gavin Enck
Medicalization is defined as “a process in which non-medical problems become defined and treated as medical problems, usually in terms of illness and spending” (Conrad, Mackie and Mehrotra 2010, 1943). According to Peter Conrad (2007; 2010), medicalization is a social... [read post]