Isaiah Joshua (‘Josh’) Fidler 1936–2020

From here to there; a life based on migration. An interview with Isaiah J. Fidler.

As part of the technological advances of our age, it proved possible to conduct this interview across “the ether” using the medium of email. Not the most satisfactory medium for me and not just because I failed to add to my air miles by foregoing a trip to Houston. It was disappointing for me because, as a former pupil of Josh’s, I was well aware of the warm and generous hospitality I could hav...

JOSH Editorial

Planning and scheduling have an interesting relationship. In informal usage, planning and scheduling are frequently treated almost interchangeably. In contrast, formally, their refined and tightly specified descriptions appear quite different: planning is a PSPACE-hard problem, while scheduling is an archetypal NP-hard problem. The research communities that examine these problems seem, to a lar...

Josh Weisberg Introduction

Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic is a unique contribution to consciousness studies. The book presents a detailed and far-ranging debate between psychologist Russell T. Hurlburt, developer and defender of the Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) method of introspective reporting, and philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, whose sceptical work challenges the accuracy of any introspec...

Compositionality Josh Dever

ing from the terminological details of mediaeval semantics, Lambert’s rule requires that denotational terms in a present-tensed sentence denote the current satisfiers of their associated descriptive conditions, rather than past or future (or merely possible) such satisfiers. Later rules of the Summa Lamberti require denotational terms in pasttensed sentences to denote the past satisfiers of the...

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