Comments on “Some comments on climatic reconstructions from ice cores drilled in areas of high melt” by Roy M. Koerner

Comments on " Lying with Conditionals " by Roy Sorensen

As Sorensen points out, philosophers of lying have focused exclusively on lies that are declarative utterances, such as when the shepherd boy cries, “There is a wolf chasing my sheep!” Thus, expanding out “diet of examples” to include lying with conditionals is philosophically beneficial. In particular, it forces us to clarify the traditional definition. But contra Sorensen, it does not require...

Some Comments on Qis3

Some Comments on Professor

In a recent issue, this journal published an article by Professor Robert S. Summers reviewing and commenting critically upon a recent book by Professor H. L. A. Hart of Oxford entitled The Concept of Law. Among other things, Professor Summers criticized Professor Hart for stressing rules to the neglect of other elements of a legal system and for succumbing to reductionist tendencies in the anal...

Recent Trends in Archaeological Theory: Some Comments

 This paper selectively reviews some recent themes in archaeological theory:  a philosophical pragmatism, a turn to materiality, and understanding the past in the context of the present.  It concludes with some reflective comments on the author’s Archaeological Theory:  An Introduction, in advance of the third revised edition.

Some Comments on Physical Mathematics

These are some thoughts that accompany a talk delivered at the APS Savannah meeting, April 5, 2014. I have serious doubts about whether I deserve to be awarded the 2014 Heineman Prize. Nevertheless, I thank the APS and the selection committee for their recognition of the work I have been involved in, as well as the Heineman Foundation for its continued support of Mathematical Physics. Above all...