PROF. WATSON ON PERSONAL IDEALISM: A REPLY

Reply to comment of Prof. Artur Czekierdowski

I have read the letter by Professor Czekierdowski regarding the publication by Ciebiera et al. “Case report of ovarian torsion mimicking ovarian cancer as an uncommon late complication of laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy” with great interest as it contains numerous significant statements that to some extent question our findings; therefore, I would like to refer to the comments as they w...

What Every Grammar Does: a Reply to Prof. Arbini

Prof. Arbini's at tention is flattering; his conclusions rather less so. The issues over which Arbini and I divide are many. Yet fundamentally, ! think, our differences may be traced to disagreement about the nature and promise of the theories produced by contemporary generative grammarians. It is here that I shall focus my attention. Some of the points at which Arbini aims his criticism are qu...

Duress and contraceptive sterilization: a reply to Prof. Thomas Kopfensteiner.

Prof. B. Ramamurthi: contributions to Indian neurosurgery (a personal tribute).

A plea for a touch of idealism: reply to P Whitaker.

Whitaker's plea for a 'touch of realism' in discussions of health care allocation introduces a criterion of relevance according to which theoretical conclusions in medical ethics should be relevant to 'events in the real world' (2). Whitaker also argues that Lewis and Charny's (3) proposal to allocate resources on the basis of opinion surveys is not relevant in the real world and that my reply ...