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Emotivism & Moral Nihilism

One tends to wonder whether an emotivist view of ethics will ultimately result in a case of moral nihilism. Firstly, lets examine what exactly is emotivism and then have a look at a few problems faced by it. Emotivism is a form of non-cognitivism and was first put forward for consideration by A. J. Ayer in his book Language, Truth and Logic. Although more sophisticated versions of non-cognitivism were later penned by people such as Charles Stevenson, Simon Blackburn, Allan Gibbard and Richard Hare, Ayer’s version is the most unadorned yet still highly confrontational of these developed theories.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 8, 2009

Website Expansion

For those of you that frequent our site, it will come as no surprise to you that we have expanded the articles we were/are planning to write. We had always planned on running two individual websites – one dedicated to case files and forensics (lifetakers.com) and one dedicated to the psychology of killers and general abnormal psychological disorders (bloodsoaked-memories.com). This has proved harder to do than expected; in saying that, we have decided to merge both websites as we hadn’t even begun adding content to the second, and given the amount of time, effort, money and coding/design involved in ‘re-inventing the wheel’ we have decided to simply alter this website slightly and start adding the content here instead.

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posted by Ewan Williams
September 21, 2009

Forensic Pathology: The In’s and Out’s

Operating Theatre

Forensic pathology is yet another important field within the forensic sciences, yet not for those with a weak stomach. If you have ever seen how they conduct an autopsy you’ll know what i’m talking about, and for those of you that haven’t, just imagine systematically slicing open sections of the body and organs, including removing the brain, emptying the stomach and a few other things that although necessary, look very macabre – like something out of Silence of the Lambs.

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