Two conflicting interpretations of social philosophy

Conflicting Interpretations of Workplace Accidents: a Critical Communication Perspective

Visual Motion Retards Alternations between Conflicting Perceptual Interpretations

When the visual system is faced with conflicting or ambiguous stimulus information, visual perception fluctuates over time. We found that perceptual alternations are slowed when inducing stimuli move within the visual field, constantly engaging fresh, unadapted neural tissue. During binocular rivalry, dominance durations were longer when rival figures moved compared to when they were stationary...

Translational Efficiency and Codon Pair Bias: Conflicting Interpretations

In a recent publication in the journal Bioinformatics, Boycheva et al. 6 describe an empirical predictor for the translational step-times of codon pairs that differs from an experimentally verified statistically-based predictor previously described by Gutman and Hatfield. Here we review the statistical and experimental foundations for the Gutman and Hatfield conclusions and compare them to thos...

Philosophy of social science

Stephen Turner proposes to provide a philosophical analysis of a family of concepts falling under the general heading of " social practice " : the notion of a tacit set of rules, norms, or presuppositions that inform behavior in a given cultural milieu and that are socially authoritative and causally influential. Examples include: skills of the carpenter, passed on from master to apprentice; kn...

Two Interpretations of Two Stoic Conditionals

Four different conditionals were known to the Stoics. The so-called 'first' (Philonian) conditional has been interpreted fairly uncontroversially as an ancient counterpart to the material conditional of modern logic; the 'fourth' conditional is obscure, and seemingly of little historical interest, as it was probably not held widely by any group in antiquity. The 'second' (Diodorean) and 'third'...