On Freedom’s Mystery

Instrumental Freedoms and Human Capabilities

If Afghanistan, through its turmoil and struggles, succeeds in containing its drug trade, and cultivating a sound or even vibrant economy through concrete measures such as opening new markets, improving contract enforcement, extending the rule of law and building access roads, this will rightly merit praise and admiration. If the Afghani people also attain freedom from undernourishment – someth...

The four free-operant freedoms.

This article reviews early free-operant conditioning laboratory research and applications. The seldom-mentioned four free-operant freedoms are described for the first time in detail. Most current behavior analysts do not realize that the freedom to form responses and the freedom to speed responses were crucial steps in designing free-operant operanda in the 1950s. These four freedoms were known...

The Freedoms of Guarded Bisimulation

Guarded logics have been shown to be amazingly versatile and tractable logics since their inception by Andréka, van Benthem, Németi in [1]. Features otherwise known from modal logics are lifted to the richer setting of general relational structures. The leading idea in this generalisation is the relativisation of quantifiers to tuples that are guarded by relational atoms. In a sense that can be...

Death rate mystery

Knowing the true rate of death from covid-19 will help us fight the pandemic, but for the moment it eludes us, reports Michael Le Page.  

Reproductive freedoms and African American women.