No, we should not just ‘at least do the research’

Careers. At least we should try.

LOOKING BACK over the years it is fairly obvious that there has been little or no career guidance in medicine. Apart from the odd chat with a senior often not much senior to the young graduate himself nothing was readily available to the newly qualified doctor about future prospects in the great variety of medical fields prospects, that is, of training needs facilities or vacancies. Yet little ...

Child euthanasia: should we just not talk about it?

Belgium has recently extended its euthanasia legislation to minors, making it the first legislation in the world that does not specify any age limit. I consider two strands in the opposition to this legislation. First, I identify five arguments in the public debate to the effect that euthanasia for minors is somehow worse than euthanasia for adults--viz, arguments from weightiness, capability o...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Why Do We Need To Compare Research Software , And How Should We Do It ?

How can we measure research software? Is it possible to compare it, given the myriad different research domains, practices and pieces of software? Do we even need to do this, and what benefits might it bring? This position paper sets out the reasons for why different stakeholders, from users to developers to funders, might wish to undertake this difficult task, and describes a proposed framewor...

What we should do is blame do ∗

Thus, it is not the pseudocleft construction as a whole that results in the star on (1a). Rather, the problem is with the verb do that appears in the pseudocleft clause. This generalization has the virtue of differentiating the pseudoclefts in (1) from those in (2), since the latter lack any ∗My thanks to the participants in the Semantics II discussion section of April 10, 2001, for their help ...