Hugh Grady et Terence Hawkes (eds.), Presentist Shakespeares

Response to O ’ Grady et al . : The potential and peril of the supertree approach

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In debate over the truth or falsity of folk psychology (henceforth, FP, a notation which also will go proxy for 'folk psychological'), the most influential players tend to line up on the U.S. coasts: friends of FP, like Jerry Fodor and William Lycan, on the East; foes, like Paul Churchland, Patricia Churchland, and Stephen Stich until recently, on the W e s t . 1 There are important voices in o...

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Bayesian methods provide an eeective tool for shrinkage in wavelet models. An important issue in any Bayesian analysis is the elicita-tion of a prior distribution. Elicitation in the wavelet domain is considered by rst describing the structure of a wavelet model, and examining several prior distributions that are used in a variety of recent articles. Although elicitation has not been directly c...

Terence Horgan and Mark Timmons

J. L. Mackie argued that if there were objective moral properties or facts, then the supervenience relation linking the nonmoral to the moral would be metaphysically queer. Moral realists reply that objective supervenience relations are ubiquitous according to contemporary versions of metaphysical naturalism and, hence, that there is nothing especially queer about moral supervenience. In this p...

Hugh Dickinson

Crump interprets the stories, rather than simply recounting them. Her background as a research biologist, and her fi eld experience with native peoples, give her a broad perspective on the topic. She weaves a deft blend of summary and commentary, and often returns to emergent themes. Why do particular species appear in leading roles? Why do snakes and toads so often end up both as hero and vill...