Reply to TC Campbell

Physicalism, Supervenience, and Dependence: A Reply to Campbell

1. In a recent article in this journal, Neil Campbell has argued that certain problems with the doctrine of psycho-physical supervenience can be overcome if supervenience is viewed as a relation between predicates rather than as a relation between properties. Campbell suggests that, when properly understood, this predicate version of supervenience "expresses a form of psycho-physical dependence...

Reply to Errera and Campbell: No, low salinity shock does not increase brevetoxins in Karenia brevis.

Our paper (1) was undertaken to challenge earlier reports that low salinity stress increases brevetoxin production in Karenia brevis (2). Despite independent negative findings by three laboratories (1), Errera and Campbell still assert that low salinity shock increases cellular brevetoxins (3). Their initial report of >14-fold increases (2) lacks experimental controls. Their correction (2) subs...

Does language really matter when doing arithmetic? Reply to Campbell (1998)

Campbell (1998) has questioned the conclusion of Noël et al. (1997) and has argued that alternative analyses of their data provide strong evidence that arithmetic performance is subject to reading-based interference and provide some support for the language-specificity of number-fact memory. We consider that Campbell reached conclusions different from those we had obtained because (1) he perfor...

Methodologically sound: Evaluating the psychometric approach to the assessment of human life history [reply to Copping, Campbell, and Muncer, 2014].

Copping, Campbell, and Muncer (2014) have recently published an article critical of the psychometric approach to the assessment of life history (LH) strategy. Their purported goal was testing for the convergent validation and examining the psychometric structure of the High-K Strategy Scale (HKSS). As much of the literature on the psychometrics of human LH during the past decade or so has emana...

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