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    Re-defining moral distress: A systematic review and critical re-appraisal of the argument-based bioethics literature.Christine Sanderson, Linda Sheahan, Slavica Kochovska, Tim Luckett, Deborah Parker, Phyllis Butow & Meera Agar - 2019 - Clinical Ethics 14 (4):195-210.
    The concept of moral distress comes from nursing ethics, and was initially defined as ‘…when one knows the right thing to do, but institutional constraints make it nearly impossible to pursue the right course of action’. There is a large body of literature associated with moral distress, yet multiple definitions now exist, significantly limiting its usefulness. We undertook a systematic review of the argument-based bioethics literature on this topic as the basis for a critical appraisal, identifying 55 papers for analysis. (...)
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    “A Real Bucket of Worms”: Views of People Living with Dementia and Family Members on Supported Decision-Making.Craig Sinclair, Kate Gersbach, Michelle Hogan, Meredith Blake, Romola Bucks, Kirsten Auret, Josephine Clayton, Cameron Stewart, Sue Field, Helen Radoslovich, Meera Agar, Angelita Martini, Meredith Gresham, Kathy Williams & Sue Kurrle - 2019 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 16 (4):587-608.
    Supported decision-making has been promoted at a policy level and within international human rights treaties as a way of ensuring that people with disabilities enjoy the right to legal capacity on an equal basis with others. However, little is known about the practical issues associated with implementing supported decision-making, particularly in the context of dementia. This study aimed to understand the experiences of people with dementia and their family members with respect to decision-making and their views on supported decision-making. Thirty-six (...)
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    Nature in Indian Philosophy and Cultural Traditions.Meera Baindur - 2015 - New Delhi: Springer.
    Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy. The interest in alternative conceptualizations of nature has gained significance after many thinkers pointed out that attitudes to the environment are determined to a large extent by our presuppositions of nature. This book is particularly timely from that perspective. It begins with a brief description of the concept of nature and a history of the (...)
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    Wildlife Ethics and Practice: Why We Need to Change the Way We Talk About ‘Invasive Species’.Meera Iona Inglis - 2020 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (2):299-313.
    This article calls for an end to the use of the term ‘invasive species’, both in the scientific and public discourse on wildlife conservation. There are two broad reasons for this: the first problem with the invasive species narrative is that this demonisation of ‘invasives’ is morally wrong, particularly because it usually results in the unjust killing of the animals in question. Following on from this, the second problem is that the narrative is also incoherent, both from scientific and philosophical (...)
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    The Sceptical Optimist: Why Technology Isn't the Answer to Everything.Nicholas Agar - 2015 - Oxford: Oxford University Press UK.
    The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological progress will automatically produce great improvements in subjective well-being. He argues that radical (...)
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    Postmodernism, Hindu Nationalism and "Vedic" Science.Meera Nanda - 2005 - In Noretta Koertge, Scientific Values and Civic Virtues. New York, US: OUP Usa.
    Indian intellectuals influenced by postmoderism such as Ashis Nandy and Vandana Shiva, put local folk beliefs on a par with science. Hindu nationalists, especially members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, following the lead of the historical figure Swami Vivekananda and the contemporary Subhash Kak, have developed what they call “Vedic Science”, including Vedic astrology and Vedic creationism. Although India welcomes new technology, it has for the most part rejected the values of modern science, thus embracing a stance of what might (...)
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    Teaching dissent: Epistemic resources from Indian philosophical systems.Meera Baindur - 2023 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (6):696-706.
    How does one teach dissent in a classroom which is a disciplinary space? As a pedagogue whose work is to instil philosophical and critical thinking in students, in this article I reflect on the modalities of teaching dissent versus teaching about dissent. While it is very possible that teaching about dissent may create a model for students to emulate, teaching dissent must involve a proactive learning process within the classroom that may depend on the ethical and compassionate stand of the (...)
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    Motherhood in the East–West Encounter: Pandita Ramabai's Negotiation of ‘Daughterhood’ and Motherhood.Meera Kosambi - 2000 - Feminist Review 65 (1):49-67.
    The female East–West encounter often pivoted upon the motherhood role played by the representatives of the empire. This article aims to explore the complexities of the construction and enactment of this role. The analysis focuses on a cameo of triangular interpersonal relationships formed by Pandita Ramabai, an Indian Brahmin scholar who converted to Christianity in 1883 during her stay in England for higher studies, her little daughter Manorama who was baptized at the same time and Ramabai's spiritual mother, the Anglican (...)
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  9. Women's education through women's eyes: literary articulations in colonial western India.Meera Kosambi - 2014 - In Barnita Bagchi, Connecting histories of education: transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in (post-)colonial education. London: Berghahn Books.
     
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    Rituals for life: find meaning in your everyday moments.Meera Lester - 2017 - New York: Adams Media.
    This beautiful, inspiring book features 160 impactful, practical ways to transform everyday tasks into enjoyable, indulgent moments that reduce stress and leave you feeling balanced, connected, and ready to take on the day. In Rituals for Life, you’ll discover how to transform everyday activities such as waking, bathing, eating, and walking into mindfulness exercises. With 160 rituals throughout, you’ll learn how to infuse meaning into your daily life and improve your sense of health, empowerment, peace, prosperity, gratitude, intentionality, groundedness, and (...)
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    A 'broken people' defend science: Reconstructing the Deweyan Buddha of india's dalits.Meera Nanda - 2001 - Social Epistemology 15 (4):335 – 365.
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    Linking Radical Traditions and the Contemporary Dalit Women's Movement: An Intergenerational Lens.Meera Velayudhan - 2018 - Feminist Review 119 (1):106-125.
    Anti-caste movements in India have a long history. Cultural heritage became and remains a site of political contestation by excluded communities searching for identity and equality, and gender remains at the core of their engagements. The meanings underlying the more homogenous term of ‘Dalit’ used today are part of a historical process of self-definition. Moreover, diverse Dalit countercultures suggest varied social domains in which Dalit communities are located. South Asian historiographies have been critiqued as denying histories and historical agency to (...)
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    Spontaneous state alternations in the time course of mind wandering.Meera Zukosky & Ranxiao Frances Wang - 2021 - Cognition 212 (C):104689.
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  14. A Contribution to the Theory of the Living Organism.W. E. Agar - 1945 - Philosophy 20 (77):265-267.
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    Mr. T. W. Allen on Agar's Homerica.T. L. Agar - 1910 - Classical Quarterly 4 (01):58-.
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    Control and integration of cell signaling pathways during C. Elegans vulval development.Meera Sundaram & Min Han - 1996 - Bioessays 18 (6):473-480.
    Vulval development in the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite represents a simple, genetically tractable system for studying how cell signaling events control cell fata decisions. Current models suggest that proper specification of vulval cell fates relies on the integration of multiple signaling systems, including one that involves a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK)→Ras→mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade and one that involves a LIN‐12/Notch family receptor. In this review, we first discuss how genetic strategies are being used to identify and analyze components that (...)
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    Witnessing, Trans-“Species” Trauma Testimony, and Sticky Wounds in Contemporary Australian Poetry.Meera Atkinson - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (4):76-89.
    Literary trauma theory has traditionally been a humanist concern, and the concept of witnessing, so central to the theorization of trauma, has focused on human experience and relationships. This article stages an interdisciplinary intervention by conceptualizing trans-“species” trauma testimony as a literary encounter involving a double-layered witnessing; the human artist witnessing nonhuman animals’ witnessing to the failings and crises brought about by human society. Focusing on a selection of contemporary Australian poems, a view emerges of poetic witnessing and testimony that (...)
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  18. 7. Accommodation, Location, and Context: Conceptualization of Place in Indian Traditions of Thought.Meera Baindur - 2019 - In Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames, Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. pp. 127-144.
     
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    Sorrowful Feeling: Han and Its Haunting Legacies.Meera Lee - 2018 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2018 (184):100-118.
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    How to live with intention: 150+ simple ways to live each day with meaning & purpose.Meera Lester - 2018 - New York: Adams Media.
    Discover simple ways to live a more purposeful, peaceful, and enjoyable life with this empowering guidebook to intentional and mindful living. It’s time to put intention behind all of your actions and live a focused and fearless life! In this accessible guide, you’ll learn easy ways to infuse everyday activities—from waking and bathing to eating and walking—with a sense of purpose. Each act is designed to improve your sense of health, peace, prosperity, gratitude, and renewal. Examples include: —Eliminate thoughts of (...)
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  21. Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits.Nicholas Agar - 2013 - MIT Press.
    Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view of the transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies, making a case for moderate human enhancement—improvements to attributes and abilities that do not significantly exceed what ...
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    (1 other version)Humanity’s End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement.Nicholas Agar - 2010 - MIT Press.
    Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this is what contemporary advocates of radical enhancement offer in all seriousness. They present a variety of technologies and therapies that will expand our capacities far beyond what is currently possible for human beings. In _Humanity's End,_ Nicholas Agar argues against radical enhancement, describing its destructive consequences. Agar (...)
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  23. Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement.Nicholas Agar - 2004 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children’s characteristics. Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan ‘Brave New World’ or a return to the fascist eugenics of the past Written from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of view Considers real contemporary cases of parents choosing what kind of child to have Uses ‘moral images’ as a way to get readers with no background in philosophy to think about (...)
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  24. Accommodation, location, and context: conceptualization of place in Indian traditions of thought.Meera Baindur - 2019 - In Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames, Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
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    Nature as Non-terrestrial.Meera Baindur - 2009 - Environmental Philosophy 6 (2):43-58.
    A complex process of place-making by Vedic and Purāṇic primary narratives and localized oral secondary narratives shows how nature in India is perceived from a deeply humanized worldview. Some form of cosmic descent from other place-worlds or lokas are used to account for the sacredness of a landscape in the primary narrative called stala purāṇa, while secondary narratives, called stala māhāṭmya, recount the human experience of the sacred. I suggest that sacred geography is not geography of “terrestrial” but of implaced (...)
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    Science, Nature and the Ethical Pursuit of Happiness: A Discussion.Meera Baindur - 2020 - Tattva Journal of Philosophy 12 (2):47-57.
    Most philosophical engagements with science have been focused on the methods of science, epistemological concerns, nature of scientific methods or natural laws. New disciplines such as Science Studies and History of science have emerged from these inquiries and address any concerns on the relationship of science to society and knowledge. In this essay, the attempt is to clarify how scientific thought is not excluded from the moral domain. While a scientific fact itself cannot be subjected to moral or aesthetic judgement, (...)
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    An Inquiry into Time.Meera Chakravorty - 2010 - Tattva - Journal of Philosophy 2 (1):80-90.
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    Consciousness, time, and praxis.Meera Chakravorty - 2007 - Delhi: New Bharatiya Book.
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    Gender Equality in Employment Perquisites with Reference to Sweden, GCC and India.Rajeev Kumar Meera & Aksa Sam - 2020 - SOCRATES 8 (2spl):93-102.
    The scope of social policy today is extensive. With the changing global scenario, there is a rediscovery of “social” in it. Indubitably, there is a gender perspective on social policy globally. The world Economic Forum states that there are only six countries in the world (Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg and Sweden) where women have equal work rights to men. It is noted that the situation in different countries varies when it comes to the working benefits of different genders whether (...)
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  30. Eugenesia Liberal.Nicholas Agar - 2012 - Signos Filosóficos 14 (28):145-170.
    El artículo ofrece una interpretación de la controversial y aparentemente inaceptable caracterización de la poesía desarrollada por Platón en la República. Los objetivos principales de la discusión son: aclarar las motivaciones de dicha caracterización, desentrañar los múltiples y discontinuos argumentos que la componen, y evaluar críticamente sus aciertos y sus límites. Se concluye que no todas las posturas que adopta Platón frente a la poesía son insostenibles, y que cuando sí lo son las razones para ello resultan particularmente esclarecedoras. The (...)
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    Response to my critics.Meera Nanda - 2005 - Social Epistemology 19 (1):147 – 191.
    “The day the Enlightenment went out”, is how Gary Wills described the re-election of President George W. Bush in an op-ed column in the New York Times (November 4, 2004). Reflecting upon the conservative religious vote that put Bush back in the White House, Wills wondered if there was any connection between the fact that many more Americans believe in the Virgin Birth than in Darwin’s theory of evolution and that 75 percent of Bush supporters actually believed—without an iota of (...)
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    The Concealed Issues Submerging the Concept of Marriage- Present and Future Generations.Rajeev Kumar Meera - 2020 - SOCRATES 8 (2spl):103-112.
    The concept of marriage has undergone a transition presently when compared with the past. Norms, customs and traditions have also changed. Attitudes, choices and preferences of individuals contribute to these changes accompanied by education and modernization. Equality of women, social changes, and liberalized economy can be a few determinants contributing to the choices and preferences, yet fertility issues remain a nagging problem after marriage. The present trend highlights late marriages, and stress at home and works front for both genders, contributing (...)
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    (1 other version)Yellow is the Colour of Longing.K. R. Meera - 2009 - Feminist Review 91 (1):180-185.
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  34. Functionalism and personal identity.Nicholas Agar - 2003 - Noûs 37 (1):52-70.
    Sydney Shoemaker has claimed that functionalism, a theory\nabout mental states, implies a certain theory about the\nidentity over time of persons, the entities that have\nmental states. He also claims that persons can survive a\n"Brain-State-Transfer" procedure. My examination of these\nclaims includes description and analysis of imaginary\ncases, but--notably--not appeals to our "intuitions"\nconcerning them. It turns out that Shoemaker's basic\ninsight is correct. But there is no implication that it is\nnecessary. (edited).
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    Postoperative Complications of Time Travel.Meera Nagpal - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Humanities:1-2.
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    Comments on the ICN Position Statements regarding human rights.Ken Agar-Newman - 1994 - Nursing Ethics 1 (4):242-245.
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    Postmodernism and religious fundamentalism: a scientific rebuttal to Hindu science: an essay, a review and an interview.Meera Nanda - 2003 - Pondicherry: Navayana.
  38. Scientific temper: arguments for an Indian Enlightenment.Meera Nanda - 2010 - In Aakash Singh & Silika Mohapatra, Indian political thought: a reader. New York: Routledge.
     
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    The little book of hope.Meera Riitta Ojala - 2020 - Berkeley, California: Regent Press.
    These days a good dose of Hope is good for all of us. Anyone will enjoy this spiritual and inspirational journey filled with reflections and pictures instilling hope and reminding us how challenges can be turned into opportunities. This book is encouraging to anyone who is struggling. It's a companion that can help us learn more about ourselves and life. This book is born out of a "dark night of the soul". The author has survived two cancers and is sharing (...)
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  40. Cloning and identity.Nicholas Agar - 2003 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 28 (1):9 – 26.
    Critics of human cloning allege that the results of the process are likely to suffer from compromised identities making it near impossible for them to live worthwhile lives. This paper uses the account of the metaphysics of personal identity offered by Derek Parfit to investigate and support the claim of identity-compromise. The cloned person may, under certain circumstances, be seen as surviving, to some degree, in the clone. However, I argue that rather than warranting concern, the potential for survival by (...)
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  41. The ethics of killing: Problems at the margins of life.N. Agar - 2003 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3):445 – 447.
    Book Information The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. By Jeff McMahan. Oxford University Press. New York. 2002. Pp. xiii + 540. Aus$110.
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    Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature.Nicholas Agar - 2001 - Columbia University Press.
    Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that anything living is intrinsically valuable. This claim challenges received ethical wisdom according to which only human beings are valuable in themselves. The resulting biocentric or life-centered morality forms the platform for an ethic of the environment. -/- Agar builds a bridge between the biological sciences and what he calls "folk" morality to arrive at (...)
  43. There Is a Legitimate Place for Human Genetic Enhancement.Nicholas Agar - 2013 - In Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp, Contemporary debates in bioethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 25--343.
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    Genius Sperm, Eugenics and Enhancement Technologies.Nicholas Agar - 2004 - In Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 1–19.
    This chapter contains section titled: Two Kinds of Eugenics Technological Possibilities Moral Perplexities Hither Posthumanity?
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    On Sappho's Ode.T. L. Agar - 1914 - The Classical Review 28 (06):189-190.
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    The debate over liberal eugenics.Nicholas Agar, Dan W. Brock, Paul Lauritzen & Bernard G. Prusak - forthcoming - Hastings Center Report.
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    A new approach to differentiate states of mind wandering: Effects of working memory capacity.Matthew J. Voss, Meera Zukosky & Ranxiao Frances Wang - 2018 - Cognition 179 (C):202-212.
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    Challenges to the Modularity Thesis Under the Bayesian Brain Models.Nithin George & Meera Mary Sunny - 2019 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 13.
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    Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.Nicholas Agar & Francis Fukuyama - 2002 - Hastings Center Report 32 (6):39.
    Francis Fukuyama's controversial new book, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, has elicited varied reactions, but like it or not, it seems likely to be influential. Here are three opinions. —Ed.
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    Evolutionary Naturalism. [REVIEW]Nicholas Agar - 1999 - Mind 108 (430):401-405.
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