Interview with Shahid Rahman

An interview with Mahmuder Rahman: Bangladesh's arsenic agony.

Professor Mahmuder Rahman obtained his medical degree from Dhaka University in Bangladesh and is a member of the Royal College of Physicians (United Kingdom). He was a full professor and consultant physician at Dhaka National Medical College and Hospital until 2003. Apart from his clinical and academic work, he has contributed extensively to formulating policy for affordable health services, an...

Shahid Rahman WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING HUGH MACCOLL’S CONCEPT OF SYMBOLIC EXISTENCE

Hugh MacColl (1837–1909) proposed, in several papers, a non-standard way of understanding the ontology underlying what we today call quantified propositions. His ideas, mixed with reflections about the use of arbitrary objects, were not greatly successful and were ruthlessly criticised by Bertrand Russell especially. The aim of this paper is to show that a thorough reading of MacColl’s general ...

SHAHID RAHMAN and WALTER A. CARNIELLI THE DIALOGICAL APPROACH TO PARACONSISTENCY

Being a pragmatic and not a referential approach to semantics, the dialogical formulation of paraconsistency allows the following semantic idea to be expressed within a semi-formal system: In an argumentation it sometimes makes sense to distinguish between the contradiction of one of the argumentation partners with himself (internal contradiction) and the contradiction between the partners (ext...

JALDA's Interview with Peter Mühlhäusler

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

Iqbal, Shahid (Prep)