Why Status Effects Need not Justify Egalitarian Income Policy

Unruptured intracranial aneurysms: why clinicians should not resort to epidemiologic studies to justify interventions.

Why the Indispensability Argument Does Not Justify Belief in Mathematical Objects

The Quine-Putnam indispensability argument concludes that we should believe that mathematical objects exist because of their ineliminable use in scientific theory. I argue that none of the objects in which the indispensability argument justifies belief are mathematical objects. I first present a traditional characterization of mathematical objects. I then propose a general formulation of the in...

Status and Prosociality in Egalitarian Societies

Technological Innovation in Indian SMEs: Need, Status and Policy Imperatives

SMEs, due to their unique characteristics, are found to have inherent capabilities to undertake technological innovations successfully across industries and nations. While there is considerable empirical evidence to throw light on SME innovation contributions in the context of developed countries, there is hardly any evidence to reveal how innovative SMEs are in rapidly industrializing economie...

Why we need more basic biology research, not less

Much of the spectacular progress in biomedical science over the last half-century is the direct consequence of the work of thousands of basic scientists whose primary goal was understanding of the fundamental working of living things. Despite this, many politicians, funders, and even scientists have come to believe that the pace of successful applications to medical diagnosis and therapy is lim...