Essays on Devitt

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Question 1: Pathophysiology of Mr. Jensen’s post-operative hypovolemia

Hypovolemia is a surgical condition that indicates the rapid fluid loss that may result in organ failures. The outcomes of the hypovolemia are mostly due to insufficient circulating volume or scarce perfusion. Often hypovolemia is secondary to hemorrhage the reason of which includes severe internal or external blood loss and GI, thoracic and abdominal bleeding maladies (Devitt, 2001). Hypovolemia involves significant fluid loss other than blood that can be further accompanied by refractory gastroenteritis and widespread burns. Hypovolemia may develop in post-surgical incidence, bone fracture, due to ...

The professional is a teacher at a local high school. Common documents in the genre system include syllabus, lecture notes, reading notes, lesson plans, assignment sheets, and email notes for the students, exam questions and grading sheets. Other documents that are likely to be found in the activity system include lecture notes, notes on assignments, queries to the teacher, drafts of assignments, exam answers, clarifications on syllabus and complete assignments among others (Bazerman, p. 25). To write and read these texts, one needs to understand that the system has two major players who are the teacher and the student. ...

Analysis of the Article by Michael Devitt

The article by Michael Devitt is dedicated to the idea that all the Linnaean taxa have essences, which are guided intrinsic properties, which are mostly genetic. According to the biology philosophers, such theory is wrong and contradicts Darwinism, but in the article the author argues that biological generalizations drawn about the certain properties of species need structural explanation, adverting to the essential properties. In the most widespread approach, thus, the way an organism feels lie in a particular kind is ignored. As a result, Devitt shows how essentialism can integrate the Darwinism features that are associated with change and variation. ...

The purpose of Marc Ereshefsky’s article, “What’s Wrong with the New Biological Essentialism” is to explore the new biological essentialism and to critically evaluate it, as the title suggests. The author is intending to demonstrate that the biological essentialism should be rejected, because it implies increased costs for being adopted, while the benefits are inexistent.

The first premises that the author uses to sustain his argument is based on the HPC Theory and Biological Taxa. Homeostatic property cluster (HPC) theory includes two components: (1) HPC membership kind requires no similarities, but (2) there must be stable properties ...