Critical Notice. Rational Starting Points

Critical Notice Rational Starting Points

Epistemic justification has been claimed to be a special case of argument by philosophers such as Accordingly for each attempt, epistemic justification is the occasion of the arguer making a case for some conclusion based on other premises, when the audience and the arguer are the same person. The dialectical model of argument is used to inform how it is that a subject could come to justify her...

On Rational Maps with Two Critical Points

This is a preliminary investigation of the geometry and dynamics of rational maps with only two critical points.

On the Zeros and Critical Points of a Rational Map

Let f : P1 → P1 be a rational map of degree d. It is well known that f has d zeros and 2d−2 critical points counted with multiplicities. In this note, we explain how those zeros and those critical points are related. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 30C15. In this note, f : P1 → P1 is a rational map. We denote by {αi}i∈I the set of zeros of f , and by {ωj}j∈J the set of critical points ...

Distribution of Rational Points: A Survey

CRITICAL NOTICE Presentism and Relativity*

In this critical notice we argue against William Craig’s recent attempt to reconcile presentism (roughly, the view that only the present is real) with relativity theory. Craig’s defense of his position boils down to endorsing a ‘neo-Lorentzian interpretation’ of special relativity. We contend that his reconstruction of Lorentz’s theory and its historical development is fatally flawed and that h...