Expecting the Expected

Expecting the Worst

Expecting Many

The determiner many is analyzed relative to a notion of expectation that is introduced into contexts employed in the theory of generalized quantiiers. Issues concerning intensionality, vagueness, ambiguity and context change are considered along the way.

Expecting the Unexpected - Radiation Hardened Software

Radiation induced Single Event Effects (SEEs) are a serious problem for spacecraft flight software, potentially leading to a complete loss of mission. Conventional risk mitigation has been focused on hardware, leading to slow, expensive and outdated on-board computing devices, increased power consumption and launch mass. Our approach is to look at SEEs from a software perspective, and to explic...

Expecting Many

The determiner many is analyzed relative to a notion of expectation that is introduced into contexts employed in the theory of generalized quantifiers. Issues concerning intensionality, vagueness, ambiguity and context change are considered along the way.

Expecting Bad Luck

This paper draws on Card’s discussions of moral luck to consider the complicated moral life of people—described as pessimists—who accept the heavy knowledge of the predictability of the bad moral luck of oppression. The potential threat to ethics posed by this knowledge can be overcome by the pessimist whose resistance to oppression, even in the absence of hope, expresses a sense of still havin...