Wouter Kusters argues that madness has much to offer philosophy, as does philosophy madness. In this paper, I support both claims by drawing on a mad phenomenon which label Radical Psychotic Doubt, or RPD. First, although skepticism is minority position in epistemology, it been claimed anti-skeptical arguments remain unsatisfying. argue complaint can be clarified and strengthened showing are ir...

Probable: the ruling in a case is probably still good law and would most likely be applied to another case with a similar fact pattern in the same jurisdiction; also used for a statute when it has not been repealed by a legislature or questioned by a court. Questionable: the ruling in a case may still be good law but other different rulings under similar circumstances cast doubt on the issue; a...

This is a slightly altered portion of an expert report I wrote recently, released with permission, that I thought might serve as an example of how to go about seeking the truth and presenting the state of the science when truly definitive statements based on first principles are not available. Of course, I look forward to the readership proving me wrong with real-world examples, but somehow, I ...

ing space There is something unsettling about space. Whether it is existential or historical, our spatiality seems to generate a persistent sense of unknowing that animates repetitive projects of abstraction. Space has to be marked, framed, mapped, subject to boundaries. In that sense, as Perec writes in his extraordinary catalogue of forms of spatiality, space is a perpetual doubt (1997 [1974]...

This paper confronts and resolves the problem of apparent exceptions to constraint prohibiting co-occurrence identical consonants in both syllable margins PIE root: schematically, †… Ci … E …, where † indicates prohibition root structure following it, = consonant, ablauting vowel, optional additional margins. In advancement previous work addressing this — most recently exemplified Cooper (2009)...

We revisit the deadlock-prevention problem by focusing on priority digraphs instead of the traditional wait-for digraphs. This has allowed us to formulate deadlock prevention in terms of prohibiting the occurrence of directed cycles even in the most general of wait models (the so-called AND-OR model, in which prohibiting wait-for directed cycles is generally overly restrictive). For a particula...

Scientific Publications on Firearms in Youth Before andAfter Congressional Action Prohibiting Federal Research Funding In January1996,Congresspassedanappropriationsbill amendment prohibiting the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fromusing“fundsmadeavailable for injuryprevention . . . toadvocateorpromoteguncontrol.”1Thisprovision was triggered by evidence linking gun ownership ...