A sophisticated appetizer of “inevitable evil” or the “inevitable evil” of a “sophisticated appetizer”?

Medical Malpractice: A Preventable or Inevitable Issue

"mozart's Voice" - a Cultural Appetizer

When searching carefully in contemporary documents, as letters, posters, diaries, written testimonies, we can learn a lot about what and how Mozart himself sang: from his first public performance as a 5-years old choir-boy in Sigismundus Rex Hungariae to the rehearsal of the unfinished Requiem at his home a few hours before his death, where he sang himself the alto part, forced to stop after th...

Büchi, Lindenbaum, Tarski: A Program Analysis Appetizer

One can prove that a program satisfies a correctness property in different ways. The deductive approach uses logic and is automated using decision procedures and proof assistants. The automata-theoretic approach reduces questions about programs to algorithmic questions about automata. In the abstract interpretation approach, programs and their properties are expressed in terms of fixed points i...

Animal Suffering: A Moorean Response to a Problem of Evil

In this paper, I propose a new response to a particular instance of the problem of evil: the problem of animal suffering. My solution, in brief, is that the rational theist may argue, justifiably, that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God would not allow gratuitous animal suffering to occur, and, therefore, all instances of animal suffering that are encountered are not instanc...

Inevitable or avoidable?

The prospect of a superbug that could wipe out much of the human race sounds like the stuff of science-fiction novels, Hollywood movies or doomsday prophets. However, such a global pandemic might not be as unlikely as it seems—some would even go so far as to say that it is a certainty, with the only uncertainties being what pathogen will cause it, when it will happen and how well the world will...