Smart technologies and fundamental rights: Brill’s interview with John-Stewart Gordon

Statement Gordon Stewart

Software systems are complex. They coordinate components written at di erent times, by di erent people, perhaps even in di erent programming languages, to accomplish shared goals. Operating systems, for example, contain device drivers written by third parties, which must be trusted (or proved) not to crash the kernel. OSs are also typically implemented in multiple languages (e.g., context switc...

An interview with John Gurdon.

John Gurdon is a Distinguished Group Leader in the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Shinya Yamanaka for work on the reprogramming of mature cells to pluripotency, and his lab continues to investigate the molecular me...

Reasoning with fundamental rights

People often withdraw previously drawn conclusions in light of new information. This defeasible reasoning is also important for law, where judges often have to change their verdicts in light of new evidence. Here we investigate defeasibility in the context of conflicting fundamental rights. When, for instance, law to property conflicts with law to information, can one of these rights be “defeat...

John Bowlby and ethology: an annotated interview with Robert Hinde.

From the 1950s, John Bowlby, one of the founders of attachment theory, was in personal and scientific contact with leading European scientists in the field of ethology (e.g., Niko Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, and especially Robert Hinde). In constructing his new theory on the nature of the bond between children and their caregivers, Bowlby profited highly from their new approach to (animal) behavi...

"Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: a Handbook for Performers," by Stewart Gordon