Mr. Bedford and the Muses by Gail Godwin

William Godwin : The novel , philosophy , and history

In 1825, Hazlitt described some of the fluctuations which the reputation of William Godwin had already experienced: ‘during his lifetime,’ he had ‘secured to himself the triumphs and the mortifications of an extreme notoriety and of a sort of posthumous fame.’ Godwin’s inspirational role to younger writers and radicals, combined with the vilification of many, after the emergence of An Enquiry C...

Godwin, Fénelon, and the disappearing teacher

The connection between Godwin and Fénelon has traditionally been restricted to the famous and controversial moment in the first edition of Political Justice (1793) in which Godwin presents an example of the interdependence of rationality and ethical action. This paper argues, however, that Fénelon, and particularly his political and educational treatise Telemachus (1699), plays a significant ro...

Extracting MUSes

Minimally unsatisfiable subformulas (in short, MUSes) represent the smallest explanations for the inconsistency of SAT instances in terms of the number of involved clauses. Extracting MUSes can thus prove valuable because it circumscribes the sources of contradiction in an instance. In this paper, a new heuristic-based approach to approximate or compute MUSes is presented. It is shown that it o...

Michael Gail

This paper examines the role of habit persistence in consumption in explaining persistent responses of inflation and output to money growth shocks. A monetary stochastic dynamic general equilibrium (DGE) model with a money-in-the-utility-function (MIU-) setup is augmented by habit formation in consumption and evaluated for both Taylor and Calvo price staggering. It is shown that in the benchmar...

Chapter One Physica Options by Gail