Replies by John Martin Fischer

Ricochets & Replies

Disturbingly, the strategy laid out in Dr. B. T. Cesul’s article “A Global Space Control Strategy” (November–December 2014) essentially is a throwback to the “space dominance” policies and ambitions set out by the administration of President George W. Bush, following from the 2001 Rumsfeld Space Commission report. Furthermore, the strategy it espouses is just as unobtainable and undesirable now...

Dr. Andrade replies

C. Andrade in his letter published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry Vol 38, No.2 Page 117, has suggested that non responsiveness to ECT should also be considered an additional pre-requisite for patients who are to receive clozapine. For the reference of the readers of Indian Journal of Psychiatry, I would like to mention the views of some of the foreign authors on this issue. The clinical re...

Adam, Martin and John: Iconography, Infrastructure, and America's Pathological Inconsistency About Medical Insurance

Replies to our Critics

We are grateful to José Bermúdez and to Andrea Cristiano Pierno, Caterina Ansuini and Umberto Castiello for reading and criticizing our book. They offer us an opportunity to clarify some of our views. Bermúdez discusses aspects of our version of the two-visual systems model of human vision bearing on the separation between the content of visuomotor representations and the content of visual perc...

Remarks and Replies

One of the fundamental puzzles language learners must solve is the mapping of a string of words onto a particular (correct) syntactic structure. In this article, I examine the problem of how learners should resolve the ambiguity presented by a string that could have either a raising or a control structure. I provide both logical and empirical arguments against the view that children should be b...