Habitat Loss Does Not Always Entail Negative Genetic Consequences

Disjoint-Access Parallelism Does Not Entail Scalability

Disjoint Access Parallelism (DAP) stipulates that operations involving disjoint sets of memory words must be able to progress independently, without interfering with each other. In this work we argue towards revising the two decade old wisdom saying that DAP is a binary condition that splits concurrent programs into scalable and non-scalable. We first present situations where DAP algorithms sca...

Monitoring does not always count.

The gross under-resourcing of conservation endeavours has placed an increasing emphasis on spending accountability. Increased accountability has led to monitoring forming a central element of conservation programs. Although there is little doubt that information obtained from monitoring can improve management of biodiversity, the cost (in time and/or money) of gaining this knowledge is rarely c...

Does Perceiving Entail Knowing?

This paper accomplishes two closely connected things. First, it refutes an influential view about the relationship between perception and knowledge. In particular, it demonstrates that perceiving does not entail knowing. Second, it leverages that refutation to demonstrate that knowledge is not the most general factive propositional attitude.

Does Compositionality Entail Complexity ?

The view that propositions are mereologically complex structured entities is the regnant paradigm in the philosophy of language and linguistics. As Steven Schiffer says, “Virtually every propositionalist accepts [compositionality] and rejects unstructured propositions”, and even the “new” theories of propositions defended by Peter Hanks, Jeffrey King, Scott Soames, and Jeff Speaks take proposit...

The Pickup of Nonspecifying Variables Does Not Entail Indirect Perception