J. Donald Moon (Wesleyan University), "Is There A Global Basic Structure?"
Other
Rawls limits the claims of social justice to those who participate in a shared “basic structure” of a society; he defines the basic structure as “the way in which the main political and social institutions of society fit together into one system of social [coordination], and the way they assign…
Perceptual Capacities
Conference
The conference is open to all who are interested. No registration is required. To be a perceiver, at least on one traditional conception, is to possess certain capacities, to perceive is to exercise those capacities, and perceiving correctly requires that one exercise those…
Steve Clarke (Oxford), "The Neuroscience of Decision Making and Our Standards for Assessing Competence to Consent"
Activity
Rapid advances in neuroscience may enable us to identify the neural correlates of ordinary decision making. Such knowledge opens up the possibility of acquiring highly accurate information about people’s competence to consent to medical procedures and to participate in clinical trials. Currently we…