Brendan Bradshaw: Editor, 1979–1994

Brendan Guilfoyle ,

Recent work by Jaffe and Scardicchio has expressed the optical approximation to the Casimir effect as a sum over geometric quantities. The first two authors have developed a technique which uses the complex geometry of the space of oriented affine lines in R to describe reflection of rays off a surface. This allows the quantities in the optical approximation to the Casimir effect to be calculat...

The Bradshaw Lecture on Cancer

Reply to Ann Bradshaw

My original paper suggested that an ethics ofcare which failed to specify how, and about what, to care would be devoid of normative and descriptive content. Bradshaw's approach provides such a specification and is, therefore, not devoid ofsuch content. However, as all ethical approaches suggest something about the 'what' and 'how' of care, they are all 'ethics of care' in this broader sense. Th...

Reply to Bradshaw and Danta.

TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the comments by Bradshaw and Danta on our article [1] and would like to address several points. Comparing our study to the UK study is problematic because the UK study described a group of men who have sex with men (MSM) during the early and current highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) eras (1998–2008) [2]. In contrast, 83% of participants in our stud...

Semantic Natural Kinds Brendan

The first of the two sentences in (1) entails the second; necessarily, if the first is true then so is the second. Moreover, (1) is an instance of a more general pattern whose validity doesn’t seem to depend on the specific meanings of the words in (1). The adverb ‘quickly’, for example, can be replaced with any of a wide range of adverbs without loss of validity; analogous remarks hold for the...