Professor Anderson comments

Some Comments on Professor

In a recent issue, this journal published an article by Professor Robert S. Summers reviewing and commenting critically upon a recent book by Professor H. L. A. Hart of Oxford entitled The Concept of Law. Among other things, Professor Summers criticized Professor Hart for stressing rules to the neglect of other elements of a legal system and for succumbing to reductionist tendencies in the anal...

Comments about the Recent Experiment of Professor

A medieval artist originally used powdered ochre and applied it on a linen sheet laid over a body using a simple frottage technique. Only the most prominent features (elbows, hands, knees, upper parts of the legs and arms) were rubbed in such a way, otherwise large distortions would have been observed (experimental observation). Therefore the sheet was removed from the body and the image free-h...

A reply to Professor Dixon’s comments on the Productivity Commission’s modelling of automotive assistance

In his article, Professor Peter Dixon largely reiterates arguments made in earlier papers (Dixon and Rimmer 2008 and Dixon 2008), which formed part of consultancy reports, including for Lateral Economics (LE 2008). The Commission has responded to his criticisms in two technical supplements (PC 2008b, 2008c) to its June 2008 report Modelling Economy-wide Effects of Future Automotive Assistance (...

States versus tropes. Comments on Curt Anderson and Marcin Morzycki: ‘Degrees as kinds’

In this commentary on Anderson and Morzycki’s article ‘Degrees as kinds’, I raise some issues about the interchangeability of concrete (or Davidsonian) states (in the sense of Maienborn 2007) and tropes (particularized properties, according to Moltmann 2009), as well as the category of concrete states as such. I will also raise some issues for Anderson and Morzycki’s use of kinds of concrete st...

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