Sport Performance—Fad or Foundational?

Foundational Belief Change* Foundational Belief Change

anonymous referee for the Journal of Philosophical Logic for their insightful comments on earlier versions of this paper. I also thank Prasanta Bandy-opadhyay, Jim Cain, Francis Jeery Pelletier and Ted Sider for their sugges tions and encouragement, and acknowledge the help of my friend Ramkrish-nan Nambimadom in the construction of a crucial proof. Abstract: This paper is concerned with the co...

Sport-related concussions: paranoia or legitimate concern?

Doping in competition or doping in sport?

INTRODUCTION Since ancient times, competitive athletes have been familiar with the use of ergogenic aids and they will probably continue to use unfair and harmful substances in future, because their inclination to victory, along with the mirage of glory and money, will probably overcome health and legal risks. SOURCES OF DATA We searched PubMed using the term doping over the period 1990 to th...

Sudden death and sport--preventable or inevitable.

Physical exertion is not now an essential part of many people's working existence and because hard physical labour was the lot of the "labouring classes" from which many people have tried to escape by getting more genteel occupations, the correlates of exertion, heavy breathing and sweating are considered "not nice" and associated with the lower orders. A gentleman no less than a lady does not ...

Foundational Issues

Ray Jackendoff is well qualified to talk about the trend towards increasing specialization and fragmentation of the science of language. For over 30 years he has been a prolific contributor to a number of different topics in syntax and semantics, and has also made notable contributions to other areas of cognitive science, including music, consciousness, spatial cognition, and psycholinguistics....