Bridget Pratt
Bridget Pratt
Climate change and worsening environmental degradation remain the greatest threat of our time. How to address the environmental crisis ethically and equitably is one of the most important questions facing the global community. Conceptions o...
The Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial as the Gold Standard in Psychedelic Research: Neither Feasible Nor Desirable [0.03%]
双盲随机对照试验作为迷幻剂研究的金标准：既不可行也不可取
Daniel Villiger
Daniel Villiger
Double-blind, randomized, controlled trials (DB-RCT), if designed and conducted well, are widely considered the gold standard in medical research for purposes of establishing causal efficacy. Their logic is compelling: by balancing out all ...
"We Don't Want You Here": A Critical Examination of Staring, Disability, and the Inaccessible Environment [0.03%]
“我们不希望你在这里”：对凝视、残疾与无障碍环境的批判性审视
Natalie Hardy
Natalie Hardy
Disability scholars generally categorize staring as a stigmatizing action that has negative psychosocial impacts on disabled people. Yet, interestingly, staring is also oftentimes understood as natural, understandable, and is even encourage...
The Seriousness of Mistakes and the Benefits of Getting it Right: Symmetries and Asymmetries in the Ethics of Epistemic Risk Management [0.03%]
错误的严重性与做对的好处：表征知识风险管理体系中的对称性和不对称性伦理学问题
Torsten Wilholt
Torsten Wilholt
Scientists have to make trade-offs between different types of error risks when making methodological decisions. It is now widely recognized (and not disputed in this article) that in doing so they must consider how serious the consequences ...
Eric Winsberg
Eric Winsberg
There are many proposals in the literature on how to "manage values." Many of these proposals have in common the assumption that the relevant values in science can be "packaged for transfer": they can be put in an envelope for scientists to...
"At Least I Am Different": Disability, Authenticity, and Understanding in Rousseau's Life and Works [0.03%]
《至少我与众不同》：卢梭的生命、作品及其对残障、正直及理解的思考
Steph Ban
Steph Ban
In this paper, I examine the life and works of Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) through the lenses of madness, neurodivergence, and disability. While many scholars readily think of Rousseau as eccentric, overly em...
Perry Zurn
Perry Zurn
Recently, neurodiversity scholars published a letter to the editor of Autism arguing that Judy Singer should not be cited as coiner of neurodiversity; rather, the term should be attributed to earlier neurodiverse forums online. I make a sim...