Act of Altruism in Nicola Davies’ Whale Boy

Nicola S. Clayton

Nicola Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Clare College. Nicky studies the development and evolution of cognition, and the questions she address are informed by an understanding of biology and psychology. Her work has challenged many of the common-held assumptions that only humans can plan fo...

Definable Davies’ Theorem

We prove the following descriptive set-theoretic analogue of a Theorem of R.O. Davies: Every Σ2 function f : R× R → R can be represented as a sum of rectangular Σ2 functions if and only if all reals are constructible.

Profile: James Davies

has provoked a lot of interest and comment. For those who haven't read it, how would you summarise the argument? In a nutshell, I argue that psychiatry over the past 40 years, under the dominance of the medical or 'technological' model, has done a lot of harm in the name of helping vulnerable people. Not intentionally, I hasten to add, but as an outcome of taking the medical model too far. Your...

Alkis Togias and Nicola Scichilone

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[2] Tina Dell’Armi, Wolfgang Faber, Giuseppe Ielpa, Christoph Koch, Nicola Leone, Simona Perri, and Gerald Pfeifer. System Description: DLV. In Thomas Eiter, Wolfgang Faber, and Miros law Truszczyński, editors, Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning — 6th International Conference, LPNMR’01, Vienna, Austria, September 2001, Proceedings, number 2173 in LNAI, pages 409–412. Springer Verlag, ...