Hard Cases

Hard cases

Mr R. Gument Q.C.: May it please your Lordship I appear for the plaintiffs, T. Cobley et al. in this action. The facts are straightforward and simply recounted. On or about the 10th of October 2000, the plaintiffs submitted a typescript of a scientific paper to the editors of the journal Nascence. Some two weeks later, they received a communication from the editors stating that their paper woul...

Hard cases.

Hard cases of comparison

Chapter 6: Hard Cases

In this chapter, I consider hard cases: truths about mathematics, morality, ontology, intentionality, modality, and a number of other domains. These are all domains outside the scope of chapters 3 and 4, such that there is some question about whether all truths in these domains are scrutable from more basic truths or from PQT I. It is easy for the treatment of hard cases to be comically brief. ...

Hard cases (contd)

Your chronicler has had several responses to the matters raised in ‘Hard cases’, an excerpt of the court transcript reported earlier (Curr Biol 2000, 10:R127). All who were authors of papers have quoted virtually identical experiences: the rejection of a paper turning on differences between a referee and the authors and always decided in favour of the referee by the editors. They greeted with r...