Those who have comorbid conditions see themselves as much more disabled than those with a single substance use or psychiatric disorder; hence their over-representation in health services. However, as the preceding chapters have illustrated, they are usually in treatment for a single disorder, and the services are not enabled to tackle comorbidity. A frequent message throughout has been that com...

Population axiology concerns how to evaluate populations in regard to their goodness, that is, how to order populations by the relations “is better than” and “is as good as”. This field has been riddled with “paradoxes” which seem to show that our considered beliefs are inconsistent in cases where the number of people and their welfare varies. Already in Derek Parfit’s seminal contribution to t...

The PVM is a system for distributed processing implementations that offers tools for communication between tasks, like point to point messages and broadcasts, and tools to control the spawning of tasks. It was chosen due to the simplicity it allows in the implementation of message exchanges between the agents, and because it allows the definition of which workstation a process must run. Besides...

When looking at the original data analysis, we see a variety of approaches used to examine the discourse data of focus. The analysis is rich and includes a wide array of features. Conversely, the three single perspective analyses conducted for this Forum each drew upon different linguistic details to support their conclusions with different insights. It is important to consider how different ap...

Keith Campbell and Jonathan Schaffer propose an ontology in which entities consist in collocated collections of tropes, and tropes are individuated by location. This would imply that immaterial entities are not possible. In this paper, I attempt to subvert this materialist conclusion by giving two arguments against the key individuation principle it requires. I show that the locational individu...