18.1 Making predictions ( Language in use Read this article. Where do the sentences in the box belong? a soon, every business will have a website where it can advertise its products b business will certainly reduce their costs by using the Internet c The number of users is growing steadily at 10% a month
1 Crime has its own cycles, magazine some years ago. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising link between changes in the seasons and crime patterns. July and August,as do rape and other violent attacks. Murder,moreover, is more than seasonal it is a weekend crime. It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent of murders are
A reference frame consists(1)a coordinate system and(2)a set of synchronized clocks distributed throughout the coordinate grid and rest with respect to it
Utilitarianism Last time we considered three questions one might ask an ethical theory to answer i)Which acts are right and which are wrong? Which acts ought we to perform(understanding the\ought as a moral ii)What makes a particular action right or wrong? What is it about the action that determines its moral status? 111) How do we know what is right and wrong? There are a variety of strategies for answering(iii). One might hold e. g. that moral truths are revealed by god and
al Identity ll Problem of synchronic identity for persons: under what conditions are two simultaneous person-events events in the life of the same person? Problem of diachronic identity for persons under what conditions are two person-stages stages in the life of a single person. In particular, what makes a particular person-stage a continuation of me as I am right now? Background desiderata: an account of personal identity should allow for the possibility of anticipation and memory, i.e., of individual psychological connections between different person stages. It should also allow us to justify our practices of
