Notes on Giacomo Marramao's The Passage West. Could Europe Be But an Allegory for Something?

Could Semantics Be Something Else? Philosophical Challenges for Formal Semantics

Starting from an old, yet still relevant paper of Johan van Benthem, this paper explores the possible consequences of certain philosophical considerations for the concept of a formal semantics of natural language, and argues that this issue is important from the perspective of an overall theory of human information processing.

Just lip prints? No: there could be something else.

How the WTO Could Be Improved

AbstractThis paper examines the impasse in the current Doha Development Round negotiations andasks how the rules of the WTO could be changed to facilitate multilateral negotiations andto increase the welfare of the Member countries. It considers possible changes to the methodof negotiation. As examples of rules which are outdated, it considers the rules relating toregional trade agreements and ...

An Inner Automorphism Is Only an Inner Automorphism, but an Inner Endomorphism Can Be Something Strange

The inner automorphisms of a group G can be characterized within the category of groups without reference to group elements: they are precisely those automorphisms of G that can be extended, in a functorial manner, to all groups H given with homomorphisms G→ H. (Precise statement in §1.) The group of such extended systems of automorphisms, unlike the group of inner automorphisms of G itself, is...

Practice Appointment Rates for High-risk Asthmatics: What could be the Predictor(s)?

Practice appointment rates could have a significant impact on national health care costs and services offered by doctors. In this respect a study was designed to determine the relationship between practice appointments and possible predictors in high-risk asthmatics. An observational retrospective analysis of the predictors for the practice appointments in asthmatic patients with at least one h...