Poison used in recent attack on Russian spy may soon be banned

Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Stone
Keyword(s):  
Recent Attack

Closure and Defeat

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Brown
Keyword(s):  
Positive Argument ◽  
Recent Attack

After arguing that infallibilism faces serious problems, this chapter turns to consider objections levelled at fallibilism. Chapters 5 and 6 consider the objection that fallibilism undermines closure for knowledge. In reply, it’s been argued that closure fails for reasons quite independently of the fallibilism–infallibilism debate, specifically because of defeat. If that’s right, then closure provides no reason to prefer infallibilism over fallibilism. However, the very idea of defeat has come under recent attack. This and the next chapter provide an extended defence of a variety of kinds of defeat. This chapter provides a positive argument for rebutting and undermining defeat. It also examines and rejects some recent objections to rebutting defeat, including Lasonen-Aarnio’s objection that rebutting defeat fails to answer the dogmatism puzzle.

Grassroots spirituality as a holistic expression of the psyche

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
David Tacey
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
New Age ◽  
Jungian Psychology ◽  
High Culture ◽  
New Age Movement ◽  
Collective Psyche ◽  
Recent Attack

Jung was aware that any new experience of the sacred would not be welcomed as sacred by religious tradition or intellectual high culture. In fact, new experiences of the sacred are often rejected by religions, and regarded with utmost scepticism by critical traditions. I suggest that a grassroots spirituality movement is to be viewed in this context today. I distinguish this movement from the New Age movement with which it is often conflated and confused. I argue that the grassroots movement is an expression of the holistic directions of the collective psyche. Finally, I explore the Vatican's recent attack on Jungian psychology as an example of a senex tradition that seeks to destroy creativity, and suggest that Jung's theory of the religious function of the psyche is being deliberately misread by a besieged and failing tradition.

The Is-Ought Problem, the Open Question Argument, and the new science of morality

Human Affairs ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radim Bělohrad
Keyword(s):  
New Science ◽  
Open Question Argument ◽  
Open Question ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Is Ought Problem ◽  
Recent Attack

AbstractThe article deals with a recent attack by Sam Harris on two famous arguments that purport to establish a gap between factual and evaluative statements—Hume’s Is-Ought Problem and Moore’s Open Question Argument. I present the arguments, analyze the relationship between them and critically assess Harris’ attempt to refute them. I conclude that Harris’ attempt fails.

After Islamic State, Middle East fissures will deepen

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Middle East Conflict ◽  
Local Support ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Recent Attack

Significance The salafi-jihadist group has lost almost all the territory it formerly held in Iraq and Syria. The recent attack on a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai also significantly reduced its local support. Arabic-language media are already looking to the next stages of Middle East conflict. Impacts The negative impact of IS losing its Raqqa propaganda centre on its efforts to control the narrative will be temporary. Following IS's loss of the Syria-Iraq border, Arabic press focus on the confrontation between Iran and US-linked forces will rise. The disappearance of IS as a territorial threat will likely increase divisions among Middle Eastern states.

Pulvinaria iceryi (Signoret) (Hemiptera: Coccidae) and its allies on sugar-cane and other grasses

1982 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Cane ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Recent Attack

AbstractThe recent attack by Pulvinaria iceryi (Sign.) on sugar-cane in Mauritius is discussed in the context of other attacks by sap-sucking Hemiptera in the Mascarenes. P. iceryi is compared with its allies P. elongata Newst., P. saccharia DeLotto, P. sorghicola De Lotto and P. tenuivalvata (Newst.). The name of P. longisqua De Lotto is sunk as a synonym of P. elongata and a key is presented for the five related species.

Realized Eschatology at Corinth

1978 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony C. Thiselton
Keyword(s):  
To Come ◽  
Recent Attack ◽  
As If ◽  
Realized Eschatology

C. K. Barrett, F. F. Bruce and E. Käsemann very briefly state, almost in passing, that difficulties at Corinth arose from an over-realized eschatology. In C. K. Barrett's words, the Corinthians were behaving ‘as if the age to come were already consummated…For them there is no “not yet” to qualify the “already” of realized eschatology.’ This claim, however, needs to be argued more closely, and objections to it considered, since it remains a matter of controversy. The most recent attack on this diagnosis of the situation at Corinth comes from E. Earle Ellis. He argues, firstly, that the error in I Cor. xv ‘offers doubtful support for an eschatological interpretation of I Cor. 4. 8’, and secondly, that it is unlikely that Paul would criticize the Corinthians ‘merely for appropriating an eschatological perspective that he himself has taught’.

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