Some brief comments on animal rights

Some Comments on Qis3

Some Comments on Professor

In a recent issue, this journal published an article by Professor Robert S. Summers reviewing and commenting critically upon a recent book by Professor H. L. A. Hart of Oxford entitled The Concept of Law. Among other things, Professor Summers criticized Professor Hart for stressing rules to the neglect of other elements of a legal system and for succumbing to reductionist tendencies in the anal...

Difficulties with the Social Choice Rule Approach to Rights: Some Comments on Brunel and Salles

The accompanying paper by Brunel and Salles does well to remind us how Sen’s (1970) pioneering social choice rule (SCR) approach to rights is really the essential starting point for economists’ interest in the theme of the conference. The paper also succeeds in identifying some reasons for dissatisfaction with this SCR approach. Though it mentions the alternative game form approach, this is not...

Some Comments on Physical Mathematics

These are some thoughts that accompany a talk delivered at the APS Savannah meeting, April 5, 2014. I have serious doubts about whether I deserve to be awarded the 2014 Heineman Prize. Nevertheless, I thank the APS and the selection committee for their recognition of the work I have been involved in, as well as the Heineman Foundation for its continued support of Mathematical Physics. Above all...

Some comments on Garsia numbers

AGarsia number is an algebraic integer of norm ±2 such that all of the roots of its minimal polynomial are strictly greater than 1 in absolute value. Little is known about the structure of the set of Garsia numbers. The only known limit point of positive real Garsia numbers was 1 (given, for example, by the set of Garsia numbers 21/n). Despite this, there was no known interval of [1,2] where th...