Norman Douglas: Some Psychological Considerations on Old Calabria

Bromism induced by "safe" medications, old and new: some psychological considerations.

Some Considerations on Universality

Without the investigation of the concept of universality it is quite possible that our modern computers wouldn’t exist. Although they are finite automata, at least theoretically, practically they can be treated as Turing machines processing any special program which can be seen as a special Turing machine. This paper presents some general considerations on that concept, presenting in some more ...

Sports Law: Some Introductory Considerations

With the rise of importance of sport as a social phenomenon in recent decades, more public attention has been paid to the issue of the legal nature of the rules governing social relations in sports. The issue raised above are only a part of a much broader topic that involves questions of relations of a classical Westphalian state and changes in the international community as well as issues of t...

Some Considerations on Conditional Chances

Four interpretations of single-case conditional propensities are described and it is shown that for each a version of what has been called ‘Humphreys’ Paradox’ remains, despite the clarifying work of Gillies, McCurdy and Miller. This entails that propensities cannot be a satisfactory interpretation of standard probability theory.

Some Considerations on Digital Reading

This paper discusses some changes in the context of reading brought about by new forms of text publishing and reading, such as PDF files, websites and eBooks. In order to do so, the paper starts with some discussion on the importance of such devices. Then explores some of the main their characteristics, as well as some consequences it might bring to the behaviour of readers. It ends with some o...