Dirty Hands Defended

The Lawyer's Dirty Hands

Dirty hands: bacteria of faecal origin on commuters' hands.

Although many studies have investigated bacteria on the hands of health-care workers and caregivers, few have looked at microbiological contamination on the hands of the general adult public. This study investigated faecal bacteria on the hands of commuters in five UK cities. Of the 404 people sampled 28% were found to have bacteria of faecal origin on their hands. A breakdown by city showed th...

Getting Students’ Hands Dirty with Clean-Slate Networking

Conventional networking courses treat today’s protocols and mechanisms as fixed artifacts, rather than as part of a continually evolving system. To prepare students to think critically about Internet architecture, we created a graduate networking course that combines “clean slate” networking research with hands-on experience in analyzing, building, and extending real networks. Our goal was to p...

Explication Defended

How can formal methods be applied to philosophical problems that involve informal concepts of ordinary language? Carnap answered this question by describing a methodology that he called “explication.” Strawson objected that explication changes the subject and does not address the original philosophical problem; this paper shows that Carnap’s response to that objection was inadequate and offers ...

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