RECENT WORK ON FRENCH RURAL HISTORY

RECENT WORK Recent Work: Dispositions

Controversy about dispositions ranges over the following four domains: (i) the semantics of disposition ascriptions; (ii) the distinction between dispositional and categorical properties; (iii) the metaphysical status of dispositions, i.e. their fundamentality, naturalness and intrinsicness; and (iv) the various dispositional analyses of philosophical notions like causation, laws, modality, cou...

Recent Work on Virtue Epistemology

Recent work on thyroid hormones.

Progress in research frequently awaits the application of new techniques developed in unrelated fields. The biochemistry of the thyroid gland is a particularly good example, for remarkable advances have followed the introduction of paper chromatography and autoradiography with radioactive iodine (131I). Classical methods had previously shown that the circulating form of thyroid hormone was the ...

Recent Work on Radical Skepticism

This discussion surveys recent developments in the treatment of the epistemologi-cal problem of skepticism. These are arguments which attack our knowledge of certain truths rather than, say, our belief in the existence of certain entities. In particular , this article focuses on the radical versions of these skeptical arguments, arguments which purport to show that knowledge is, for the most pa...

Recent Work on the Arrow of Radiation ∗

In many physical systems, coupling forces provide a way of carrying the energy stored in adjacent harmonic oscillators from place to place, in the form of waves. The wave equations governing such phenomena are timesymmetric: they permit the opposite processes, in which energy arrives at a point in the form of incoming concentric waves, to be lost to some external system. But these processes see...