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  Mathematisation of the Science of Motion and the Birth of Analytical Mechanics : A Historiographical Note

  Marco Panza

  Usually, one speaks of mathematization of a natural or social science to mean that mathematics comes to be a tool of such a science: the language of mathematics is used to formulate its results, and/or some mathematical techniques is employed to obtain these results.

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  Conflict of Interest and Physical Therapy

  Mike W. Martin and Donald L. Gabard

  'In a chapter entitled “Conflict of Interest & Physical Therapy”, authors Martin & Gabard offer a cogent definition. They write simply, “conflicts of interest are situations in which individuals have interests that significantly threaten their role responsibilities, or would do so for a typical person having their role.” Likewise, Davis describes the standard view of conflict of interest as a situation in which a person P is in a relationship requiring P to exercise some judgment on another’s behalf and P has an interest “tending to interfere with the proper exercise of that judgment”. With regard to professional conflicts of interest, both definitions suggest that the person in question is licensed to make a judgment by virtue of the individual’s professional status and that the individual is then accountable to others within and outside his/her profession for that judgment. Several authors also emphasize the importance of avoiding even the appearance of conflict of interest. In “Law’s Blindfold”, David Luban writes that the credibility of a judge’s ruling is threatened by the appearance of impropriety since “justice must not only be done but be seen to be done” lest the impartiality of the judge be questioned.'

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  Meaningful Work: Rethinking Professional Ethics

  Mike W. Martin

  As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict. Martin challenges this "consensus paradigm" as he rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals, of which many are not mandatory. Using specific examples from a wide range of professions, including medicine, law, high school teaching, journalism, engineering, and ministry, he explores how personal commitments motivate, guide, and give meaning to work.

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  Virtuous Giving: Philanthropy, Voluntary Service, and Caring

  Mike W. Martin

  Writing for the general reader, Mike Martin explores the philosophic basis of philanthropy—"virtuous giving." This book will be welcome reading for anyone who has pondered what caring and giving mean for a good society.

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  Eliminare il tempo : Newton, Lagrange e il problema inverso del moto resistente

  Marco Panza

  The paper studies Newton's mistake in the prove of proposition X of book II of Newton's Principia, and Lagnage's discussion of it in his Théorie des fonctions analytiques.