The author is looking for an opportunity to analyze the nature of a historical event, free from deterministic and constructivist premises scientifical thinking, not reducible logic pragmatics structuralist narrativist approaches. It starts Heidegger’s understanding it as “un-overpassed” (das Unumgängliche) scientific historiography so-called “unhidden” truth (aletheia). Since within Heideggeria...

Abstract I explore the process of changes in observability entities and objects science how such impact two key issues scientific realism debate: claim that predictively successful elements past are retained current theories, inductive defense a specific version inference to best explanation with respect unobservables. provide case-study discovery radium by Marie Curie order show some can chang...

This discussion aims to provide the occasional medical expert witness with background knowledge of the adversarial court system and the role of the medical expert witness within it. The parallel evolution of the adversarial and inquisitorial legal systems has been more out of tradition rather than any systematic review of the effectiveness of one system or the other. Both legal systems have the...

Playlists are a natural delivery method for music recommendation and discovery systems. Recommender systems offering playlists must strive to make them relevant and enjoyable. In this paper we survey many current means of generating and evaluating playlists. We present a means of comparing playlists in a reduced dimensional space through the use of aggregated tag clouds and topic models. To eva...

According to the Consequence Argument, the truth of determinism plus other plausible principles would yield the conclusion that we have no free will. In this paper I will argue that the conception of determinism typically employed in the various versions of the Consequence Argument is not plausible. In particular, I will argue that, taken most straightforwardly, determinism as defined in the Co...