Concepts: Where Subjectivism Goes Wrong

The identity theory of truth and the realm of reference: where Dodd goes wrong

In ‘On McDowell’s identity conception of truth’ (Fish and Macdonald 2007), we suggested that McDowell’s Identity Theory, according to which a proposition is true if and only if it is identical with a fact, is only fully understood when we realize that there are two identity claims involved. The first is that, when one thinks truly, the content of a whole thought is identical with a Tractarian T...

Where Bell Went Wrong

It is explained on a physical basis how absence of contextuality allows Bell inequalities to be violated, without bringing an implication on locality or realism. The point is that the initial values of the hidden variables of the detectors are mutually exclusive for different detector settings. Therefore they have no reason to possess a common probability distribution and hence no reason to sat...

NetReview: Detecting When Interdomain Routing Goes Wrong

Despite many attempts to fix it, the Internet’s interdomain routing system remains vulnerable to configuration errors, buggy software, flaky equipment, protocol oscillation, and intentional attacks. Unlike most existing solutions that prevent specific routing problems, our approach is to detect problems automatically and to identify the offending party. Fault detection is effective for a larger...

When the Fight against Fungi Goes Wrong

Spindle orientation: What if it goes wrong?

The angle of cell division is critical in at least two contexts. It can determine cell fate, as it does in developing neural tissue. It can also dictate tissue architecture, as it does in many epithelia. One way to ensure the correct angle of cell division is through controlled orientation of the spindle at metaphase. What happens when that control is lost? Ongoing work suggests that the conseq...