Myth and concealment at colonial law's foundations

Medical Malpractice, the Affordable Care Act and State Provider Shield Laws: More Myth than Necessity?

No-Fault Laws and At-Fault People

Putting Gestalt Laws at Work

The inherent complexity and ambiguity of scene properties renders vision extremely difficult without taking advantage of the statistical regularities of natural images. The most basic forms of these image regularities are captured by the Gestalt laws of perceptual organization [5, 15, 21]. This paper reports two versions of a multiscale and multiorientation artificial recognition system in whic...

Laws, causation and dynamics at different levels.

I have two main aims. The first is general, and more philosophical (§2). The second is specific, and more closely related to physics (§§3 and 4). The first aim is to state my general views about laws and causation at different 'levels'. The main task is to understand how the higher levels sustain notions of law and causation that 'ride free' of reductions to the lower level or levels. I endeavo...

Colonial and post-colonial aspects of Australian identity.

Since the 1988 Bicentennial and the 2001 centenary of federation celebrations colonial images have flourished in Australia, highlighting the roles of convicts and free settlers during early colonization. Old sites, such as Port Arthur have been re-invigorated, and in 2004 Tasmanians celebrated the bicentenary of 'white' settlement. However, social scientists have given little attention to the r...