My Delicate Taste: Aesthetic Deference Revisited

Deference and Self-knowledge

1 Deference and Self-Knowledge It has become increasingly popular to suggest that non-individualistic theories of content1 undermine our purported a priori knowledge of such contents because they entail that we lack the ability to distinguish our thoughts from alternative thoughts with different contents. However, problems relating to such knowledge of ‘comparative’ content tell just as much ag...

Fried Rice: My Taste of Culture, Home and Family

In Deference to Reference

This dissertation consists in three separate papers. The topic of Iln Deference to Refernnts' is the semantic structure of belief reports of the form 'A believes that pl. I argue that no existing theory of these sentences satisfactorily accounts for anaphoric relations among expressions inside and outside of the embedded complement sentences. I propose a new account of belief reports, which ass...

Delicate Decisions

The anti-apoptotic BCL2-family member MCL1 can be induced by a number of growth factors and promote cell survival. However, how growth factors maintain MCL1 levels to prevent apoptosis has been unclear. Maurer et al. now report that the control of MCL1 stability by glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) is an important mechanism for the regulation of apoptosis by growth factors and AKT/protein kinas...

The balance between stroke prevention and bleeding risk in atrial fibrillation: a delicate balance revisited.

See related article, pages 1482–1486. Although atrial fibrillation (AF) is well recognized to confer a risk of stroke, this risk is not homogeneous. Oral anticoagulation (OAC) with warfarin is highly beneficial, but such therapy is inconvenient and carries a risk of bleeding. Thus, stroke risk stratification schemes have been devised to identify “high risk” AF patients for whom the absolute ben...