Beyond the New Deal: Reply

How to reply to referees' comments when submitting manuscripts for publication

Background: The publication of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals is a fairly complex and stepwise process that involves responding to referees’ comments. Little guidance is available in the biomedical literature on how to deal with such comments. Objective: The objective of this article is to provide guidance to notice writers on dealing with peer review comments in a way that maxim...

A Problem in Avicennas View on the Origination of the Soul and a Reply to It

Persistent Queries

We propose a syntax and semantics for interactive abstract state machines to deal with the following situation. A query is issued during a certain step, but the step ends before any reply is received. Later, a reply arrives, and later yet the algorithm makes use of this reply. By a persistent query, we mean a query for which a late reply might be used. Syntactically, our proposal involves issui...

Comment on the papers by Carles Muntaner and Graça Druck

I thank the opportunity to reply to Eduardo Siqueira’s and Maria Inês Carsalade Martins’ contributions dealing with my article on global precariousness. In this reply I will discuss the sections of their contributions that deal more specifically with my article. Concurrent with Prof. Siqueira, moving beyond proximal determinants to multilevel frameworks that encompass the mechanisms linking mor...

Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment

The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West “as Christianity „in the East“. The Logos of Life Philosophy as developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieni...