Some contemporary semantic views defend an asymmetry thesis concerning definite descriptions and indexicals. Semantically, indexicals are devices of singular reference; they contribute objects to the contents of the speech acts made with utterances including them. Definite descriptions, on the other hand, are generalized quantifiers, behaving roughly the way Russell envisaged in “On Denoting”. ...

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The History of Ideas is presently enjoying a certain renaissance after a long period of disrepute. Increasing quantities of digitally available historical texts and the availability of computational tools for the exploration of such masses of sources, it is suggested, can be of invaluable help to historians of ideas. The question is: how exactly? In this paper, we argue that a computational his...

L’emphysème lobaire géant (ELG) est une cause rare de détresse respiratoire. Il est caractérisé par une distension alvéolaire homogène intéressant le plus souvent un lobe pulmonaire. Nous en rapportons trois cas, colligés au service de néonatologie et soins intensifs: un nouveau-né âgé de 27 jours, et deux nourrissons âgés respectivement de 4 et 6 mois. Le crit è re d’inclusion est basé sur l’e...

Interpretive flexibility – the capacity of a specific technology to sustain divergent opinions – has long been recognised as playing an important role in explaining how technical artefacts are socially constructed. What is less clear is how a system’s technical characteristics might limit its ability to be interpreted flexibly. This gap in the literature has largely arisen because recent contri...

This paper addresses the difference between the right of access of the citizen to information held by the public sector, and the re-use of public sector information. It argues that the distinction is difficult to maintain in a continuously evolving information society and questions whether the definition of re-use in the European directive on the re-use of public sector information should be re...