How might a person’s desire be ‘frustrated’ by another person? Philosophers David Birks and Thomas Douglas at the University of Oxford, suggest two ways in the Journal of Value Inquiry, September 2017, using the desire for a cup of tea as an example. “Suppose that a person, call him Andrew, has a desire to drink […]
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Revisionary thoughts of an ecologist
Raf Aerts, forest ecologist, discloses news of his latest academic publishing triumph/frustration (thanks to investigator Bob O’Hara for bringing this to our attention.): “I’ve just spotted a Revisosaurus major on one of my manuscripts, even though the field characteristics were very close to those of a Rejectosaurus resubmittens (see Fig. 1, blue line).” Fig. 1. […]