Antigone’s stance amongst Slovenia’s undead

Crisis in Cognitive Science? Rise of the Undead Theories

The controversy that followed the publication of Bem’s (2011) surprising results had the merit of focusing discussions on the validity of the current paradigm in psychological science. It has been argued that a tendency of journals to avoid publishing null results, in addition to the further extinguishing of null results through questionable researcher practices, is leading to the promulgation ...

UNDEAD: Detecting and Tolerating Deadlocks in Production Software

Deadlocks are critical problems afflicting parallel applications, causing software to hang with no further progress. Existing detection tools suffer not only from significant recording performance overhead, but also from excessive memory and/or storage overhead. In addition, they may generate numerous false alarms. Subsequently, after problems have been reported, tremendous manual effort is req...

Vampires: Social Constructivism, Realism, and Other Philosophical Undead

Stance relativism: empiricism versus metaphysics The Empirical Stance

In The empirical stance, Bas van Fraassen argues for a reconceptualization of empiricism, and a rejection of its traditional rival, speculative metaphysics, as part of a larger and provocative study in epistemology. Central to his account is the notion of voluntarism in epistemology, and a concomitant understanding of the nature of rationality. In this paper I give a critical assessment of thes...

Beyond the Guidelines Stance

SEE PAGE 166 F ibrinolysis remains a cornerstone for the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) when primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is not readily available. Its administration in a pre-hospital setting increases the proportion of patients undergoing rapid reperfusion with resultant improved outcomes compared with in-hospital administration (1). The lo...