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Abortion, Infanticide, and Choosing Parenthood
Prabhpal Singh
Journal:

Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , First View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

19 February 2024, pp. 1-26
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Some responses to analogies between abortion and infanticide appeal to Judith Jarvis Thomson's argument for the permissibility of abortion. I argue that these responses fail because a parallel argument can be constructed for the permissibility of infanticide. However, an argument on the grounds of a right to choose to become a parent can maintain that abortion is permissible but infanticide is not by recognizing the normative significance and nature of parenthood.

1 - Early Atomic Theory
Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin
Book:

Foundations of Modern Physics

Published online:

22 April 2021

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22 April 2021, pp 1-15
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The serious scientific application of the atomic theory began in the eighteenth century, with calculations of the properties of gases, which had been studied experimentally since the century before. This is the topic with which we begin this chapter. Applications to chemistry and electrolysis followed in the nineteenth century, and are considered in subsequent sections. The final section of this chapter describes how the nature of atoms began to be clarified with the discovery of the electron.

3 - A History of Research on Intelligence
from Part I - Intelligence and Its Measurement
- By Robert J. Sternberg
Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York
Book:

The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence

Published online:

13 December 2019

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16 January 2020, pp 31-46
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In this chapter, I review the history of psychological accounts of intelligence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I open with an account of the thinking of Galton and Binet. Although Binet is often viewed as atheoretical, I show this not to be the case at all. I then discuss some of their successors, including Spearman, Thomson, Holzinger, Thurstone, Guilford, Guttman, Burt, Vernon, Cattell, Carroll, and Johnson and Bouchard.