Reply from Lars Larsson, Nicola Cacciani and Barry Dworkin

Reply from Lars Larsson, Nicola Cacciani and Barry Dworkin

We are grateful for the thoughtful comments regarding our publication in The Journal Physiology, as they provide us an opportunity to clarify several points regarding the effects of mechanical ventilation, per se, on diaphragm muscle structure and function. In their comments Schellekens and co-workers are surprised by the lack of a significant decrease in diaphragm muscle fibre cross-sectional ...

The purpose of death: a reply to Professor Dworkin.

Roles are not classes: a reply to Nicola Guarino

In this paper we reply to Nicola Guarino’s comments on our article entitled ‘‘Using explicit ontologies in knowledge acquisition’’ . We concentrate on the issues raised by Guarino : (i) the existence of the interaction problem at the knowledge level , (ii) the nature of ontologies , and (iii) the utility of method ontologies . In our reply we attempt to distinguish between (mutual) misunderstan...

Does Dworkin Commit Dworkin’s Fallacy?: A Reply to Justice in Robes

In an article entitled ‘Dworkin’s Fallacy, Or What the Philosophy of Language Can’t Teach Us about the Law’, I argued that in Law’s Empire Ronald Dworkin misderived his interpretive theory of law from an implicit interpretive theory of meaning, thereby committing ‘Dworkin’s fallacy’. In his recent book, Justice in Robes, Dworkin denies that he committed the fallacy. As evidence he points to the...

Alkis Togias and Nicola Scichilone