This book collects nine of the most important articles published in the last twenty years on the subject of rights--their nature, content, and justification--in philosophy, jurisprudence, and political theory. Contributors include Margaret MacDonald, Gregory Vlastos, H.L.A. Hart, Alan Gewirth, David Lyons, T.M. Scanlon, Ronald Dworkin, J.L. Mackie, and Joseph Raz.
This book is about selectively toxic agents. That is to say, it is about those substances that affect certain cells without harming others, even when they are close neighbours. Toxicity need not be fatal. It can be made easily reversible, as is the case with general anaesthetics. Selective toxicity covers an immense field: most of the drugs used for treating illness in man and his economic animals, as well as all of the fungicides, insecticide...
In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its appearance among the pre-Socratics to its demise in the early twentieth century.
