We explore the outstanding question whether Conciliationism commits one to Uniqueness, and return a negative verdict. After setting out some preliminary matters (§1), we explain and criticize Kelly’s [2010] argument that Conciliationism commits one to Uniqueness (§2), thereby defeating his larger argument that Conciliationism deserves no dialectical special treatment. But this brings no comfort...

Missing data are a pervasive problem in health investigations. We describe some background of missing data analysis and criticize ad hoc methods that are prone to serious problems. We then focus on multiple imputation, in which missing cases are first filled in by several sets of plausible values to create multiple completed datasets, then standard complete-data procedures are applied to each c...

This paper addresses two questions related to educational multimedia applications: • What lessons should we learn from today's Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)?, and • What the user interfaces should look like in the future? We address the first question by drawing on our experience from two multimedia projects, that deal with multimedia proceedings and multimedia lectures. For the second quest...

This paper tracks the fortunes of the debate on whether children playing at baptism can actually administer and receive a valid sacramental baptism from Rufinus of Aquileia (late 4th to early 5th century) through ca. 1300. Theologians and canonists who addressed this question arrived at no consensus. They often disagreed with their own masters, applied Rufinus to a range of issues he never took...

This paper examines several problematic aspects of George Reisman’s Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, specifically, five problems in the economics of natural resources. I argue first, that Reisman’s work lacks sufficient grounding in economic theory. Second, his exposition neglects important arguments in the environmental literature. Third, it avoids problems of uncertainty, leading to a fau...

It is a fundamental tenet of philosophy of the "special sciences" that an entity may be analyzed at multiple levels of organization. As a corollary, it is often assumed that the levels into which a system may be theoretically analyzed map straightforwardly onto real stages of processing. I criticize this assumption in a case-study from the domain of speech science. I argue (i) that the dominant...

Researchers criticize the transaction cost economics (TCE) paradigm for over-generalizing the assumption of opportunism as human nature. We suggest that opportunistic propensity is affected by cultural prior conditioning of individualism–collectivism (I–C). Specifically, we propose that individualists have a higher opportunistic propensity in intra-group transactions, and collectivists in inter...

In their letter to the editor, Grimsrud, Gallefoss, and Løchen (2012) criticize us for putting too little emphasis on the health hazards of snus in our study (Lund & Scheffels, 2012) and suggest that our scientific consensus that snus is much less harmful than cigarettes is faulty. Furthermore, they warn us about the risk of becoming useful tools for the tobacco industry and imply that we have ...

We performed a comparative analysis of the arguments of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen – EPR, 1935: [1] (against the completeness of QM) and the theoretical formalism of QM (due to von Neumann, 1932: [2]). We found that the EPR considerations do not match at all with the von Neumann's theory. Thus EPR did not criticize the real theoretical model of QM. The root of EPR's paradoxical conclusion on ...

263 In part one, I identify the core logical structure of the precautionary principle and distinguish it from the various key concepts that appear in the many different formulations of the principle. I survey these concepts and suggest a program of further conceptual analysis. In part two, I examine a particular version of the precautionary principle dubbed “the catastrophe principle” and criti...