Prevalence and prediction of chemotherapy-related anxiety, nausea and vomiting in cancer patients

Anxiety, nausea and vomiting before, during and after chemotherapy administration were studied in 50 cancer patients. In addition, patient responses to the Autonomic Perception Questionnaire (APQ) and their relation to the anxiety, nausea and vomiting scores was studied. Anticipatory anxiety occurred in 66% and anticipatory nausea in 40% of the patients; 14% showed anticipatory vomiting. The number of patients reporting anxiety decreased to 38% after chemotherapy, whereas nausea and vomiting increased to 47 and 49%, respectively. APQ scores correlated significantly with anxiety and nausea reports during all time periods, but not with the frequency of vomiting.     

The limits of the just-too-different argument

According to moral non-naturalism, the kind of genuine or robust normativity that is characteristic of moral requirements cannot be accounted for within a wholly naturalistic worldview, but requires us to posit a domain of non-natural properties and facts. The main argument for this core non-naturalist claim appeals to what David Enoch calls the ‘just-too-different intuition’. According to Enoch, robust normativity cannot be natural, since it is just too different from anything natural. Derek Parfit makes essentially the same claim under the heading of ‘the normativity objection’, and several other non-naturalists have said similar things. While some naturalists may be tempted to reject this argument as methodologically or dialectically illegitimate, we argue instead that there are important limits to what the just-too-different intuition can show, even setting all other worries aside. More specifically, we argue that the just-too-different argument will backfire on any positive, independent specification of the distinction between the natural and the non-natural. The upshot is that the just-too-different argument can show significantly less than non-naturalists have suggested.     

PROBABILITY DISCORDANCE AND CHOICE REACTION TIME: I. Effects of discordant probability on choice reaction time during prolonged training

Successive development of disinhibitory action over long monotonous training periods was studied with choice RT stimuli possessing discordant properties related to their relative frequency and the direction of movement. The results indicate that stimuli with strong initial proactive interference on ensuing reaction to the critical probe-stimulus become, with prolonged training, the least interfering.     

Value ascriptions: rethinking cognitivism

Philosophical Studies - This paper focuses on value as ascribed to what can be desired, enjoyed, cherished, admired, loved, and so on: value that putatively serves as ground for evaluating such...