There are No Easy Counterexamples to Legal Anti-positivism

Editorial: Leadership when there are no easy answers: applying leader moral courage to wicked problems.

There are no Aspects

In this paper, we claim that a specialized aspect module is not required. Instead, we propose an expressive aspect-oriented composition mechanism which can be applied upon existing modules. At the design level, the CoCompose modeling framework is introduced which is based on Model Driven Development. CoCompose allows step-wise refinement from a high-level design to the lowest level design or co...

Legal Positivism : Its Scope and Limitations

There Are No Particles, There Are Only Fields

Quantum foundations are still unsettled, with mixed effects on science and society. By now it should be possible to obtain consensus on at least one issue: Are the fundamental constituents fields or particles? As this paper shows, experiment and theory imply that unbounded fields, not bounded particles, are fundamental. This is especially clear for relativistic systems, implying that it's also ...

There are no abstract objects

1 The thesis Suppose you start out inclined towards the hard-headed view that the world of material objects is the whole of reality. You elaborate: 'Everything there is is a material object: the sort of thing you could bump into; the sort of thing for which it would be sensible to ask how much it weighs, what shape it is, how fast it is moving, and how far it is from other material objects. The...