Modality in debate

‘‘Split Screens’’ and ‘‘Spin Rooms’’: Debate Modality, Post-Debate Coverage, and the New Videomalaise

This experimental research examines how different presentation modalities in presidential debates and post-debate spin influence the ability to form evaluations about candidates’ character, shape perceptions of their incivility, and alter judgments of political trust and news credibility. Results indicate that these experimental factors work together to encourage character judgments, diminish p...

Eliminating Modality from the Determinism Debate? Models vs. Equations of Physical Theories

This paper addresses a specific question of reductionism, viz., the question of whether modalities are basic for the notions of determinism and indeterminism, or whether one can do without them. I will argue that the current treatment of these notions within philosophy of science, which takes determinism and indeterminism to be properties of scientific theories rather than metaphysical theses a...

Time and Modality in Avicennan Logic

Debate Debate

Geocomputation is an emerging field of research that advocates the use of computationally intensive techniques such as neural networks, heuristic search, and cellular automata for spatial data analysis. Since increasing amounts of health-related data are collected within a geographical frame of reference, geocomputational methods show increasing potential for health data analysis. This paper pr...

De re and De dicto Modality in Islamic Traditional Logic