Cracks—Of Kuhn and Doom

Gloom, Doom, and Inequality

mics, policy makers, and even politicians that poverty and inequality should no longer be treated as soft “social issues” that can safely be subordinated to more fundamental interests in maximizing total economic output. The most important sources of this newfound concern with poverty and inequality are (1) the spectacular increase in economic inequality and other forms of disadvantage in many ...

Dynamism Gloom and Doom?

1 This work is supported in part by AFOSR (F49620-98-1-0217) and NSF (CCR-9988320). Abstract. In the areas of application integration, mobility, and agent technology, dynamism is an increasingly desirable quality. However, deploying dynamism is problematic due to constraints on and limitations of the applications and middleware used in such distributed systems. In order to realize dynamism in t...

Cosmology , Doom , and Gloom

Beyond Cyber - Doom :

" [T]hese war games are about the real effects of a cyberwar. .. about causing chaos in our streets at home due to sudden crashes in our critical infrastructure through manipulation of our banking, transportation, utilities, communications, and other critical infrastructure industries. These are all real scenarios. " (Patterson, 2010b) " In seeking a prudent policy, the difficulty for decision-...

Kuhn and Scientific Practices

Joseph Rouse Wesleyan University Thomas Kuhn's philosophical work has helped initiate or reinvigorate many of the central themes in the philosophy of science over the past three decades. His claim that appropriate attention to history could decisively transform familiar philosophical of science views was of course prophetic. Kuhn's discussion of meaning change, incommensurability, and the inter...