General Robert Craufurd and his Critics

Rorty and His Critics

Robert Willan and his kinsmen.

A. THE ANCESTRY AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF ROBERT WILLAN, THE DERMATOLOGIST IN THE spring of 1812, the year of Napoleon's ill-fated venture into Russia, Richard Willan, a gentleman farmer in Yorkshire, received a letter from Madeira. The letter, dated 14 April, came by Penzance and Kendal, and it took four weeks to reach its destination at the Hill, in Marthwaite near Sedbergh, where Richard live...

Daniel Dohrn Lewis and his Critics on

Quine and His Critics on Truth-functionality and Extensionality

Quine argues that if sentences that are set theoretically equivalent are interchangeable salva veritate, then all transparent operators are truth-functional. Criticisms of this argument fail to take into account the conditional character of the conclusion. Quine also argues that, for any person P with minimal logical acuity, if ‘belief’ has a sense in which it is a transparent operator, then, i...

Stern and his critics on discounting and climate change