of uniform -excellence. This, of course, indicates editorial expertise of a high order. Naturally the expert in a particular field will find matters of detail to criticize-this is inevitable in a comprehensive textbook. For example (p. 82) osteoblasts are said to increase by mitotic activity. They don't. Osteoblasts are always recruited from neighbouring undifferentiated cells: the latter alone...

This paper proposes a novel formal semantic analysis of echo questions built upon the idea that they are questions about expressions. Although similar concepts have been occasionally expressed in the literature, no formal models have been proposed that directly reflect this metalinguistic concept. Specifically, we propose a compositional semantics of echo questions formulated in the structured ...

Nowadays “greenwashing” is a popular term. We are aware of companies such as BP Oil and many others being accused of greenwashing, claiming eco-consciousness or launching products and services that are less than legitimately green. But few people know that the term was originally coined to criticize hotels that encouraged guests to reuse towels for environmental reasons but made little or no ef...

In this paper, we rethink the problem of intelligent living machines in the context of original Robots from the play R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek. We analyze Robots in terms of recent artificial intelligence paradigms – cognitivism, emergentism and enactive viewpoint –, and highlight conceptual positives and mistakes of Robot inventors. Finally, we draw a line between Rob...

In this paper, I respond to Pierre Le Morvan’s critique of my thesis that ignorance is lack of true belief rather than absence of knowledge. I argue that the distinction between dispositional and non-dispositional accounts of belief, as I made it in a previous paper, is correct as it stands. Also, I criticize the viability and the importance of Le Morvan’s distinction between propositional and ...

Briand, Morasca, and Basili [1] introduce a measurement theoretic approach to software measurement and criticize among others the work of the author, but they misinterpret the work of the author. Zuse does not require additive software (complexity) measures as Briand, Morasca, and Basili state. Zuse uses the concept of the extensive structure in order to show the empirical properties behind sof...

I criticize an increasingly popular set of arguments for the justifiability of punishment. Some philosophers try to justify punishment by appealing to what Peter Strawson calls the reactive attitudes – emotions like resentment, indignation, remorse and guilt. These arguments fail. The view that these emotions commit us to punishment rests on unsophisticated views of punishment and of these emot...

Textbook database examples are often wrong and simplistic. Unfortunately Data is never born clean or pure. Errors, missing values, repeated entries, inconsistent instances and unsatisfied business rules are the norm rather than the exception. Data cleaning (also known as data cleansing, record linkage and many other terminologies) is growing as a major application requirement and an interdiscip...

Kremer, Onatski, and Stock (KOS) criticize twin peaks dynamics in the evolution of cross-country income dynamics. They suggest instead convergence to a single peak at high incomes, with a prolonged transition when polarization and inequality increase. This article makes three points. First, the data are as consistent with a twin peaks characterization as they are for KOS’s preferred description...

This paper has several objectives. These are: (1) to analyse the meaning of homelessness in the light of recent contributions on the meaning of home; (2) to criticize some current perspectives on homelessness as a social problem; (3) to identify and explore a number of different dimensions of the meaning of home and homelessness; (4) to reassess the evidence on the context of home and homelessn...