everal recent studies on Borges have explored the many philosophical motifs that he employs in his short stories.1 This philosophical reading seems to be justified by a number of Borges’ own statements about both his biography and his work. For example, in the Preface to The Gold of the Tigers (1972), he refers to his “philosophical preoccupation” which he says “has been with [him] since [his] ...

Recent contributions to discussions on paediatric cochlear implantation in Norway indicate two mutually exclusive doctrines prescribing the best course of post-operative support for a child with cochlear implants; bilingually with sign language and spoken language simultaneously or primarily monolingually with speech only. This conflict constitutes an ethical problem for parents responsible for...

Abstract National parks and other large protected areas play an increasingly important role in the context of global social environmental challenges. Nevertheless, they continue to be rooted local places cannot separated out from their socio-cultural historical context. Protected furthermore are understood constitute critical sites struggle whereby very meanings nature, landscape, nature-societ...

"Pluralist publics in market driven education: towards more democracy educational reform." Educational Review, 73(3), pp. 396–397

This paper describes the work on the Collaborative Planning Model in Project 12. An hypothesis is presented to attempt to unify the different planning doctrines under a common model. This has guided the development of a generic planning OWL ontology containing aspects of constraint-based reasoning and teamwork. The ontology also models “reasoning steps” and the dependencies between expertise, i...

We investigate how liability rules and property rules a ect the incentives to invest in research tools. We argue that it is hard to deter infringement under any of the enforcement regimes available. However, counterintuitively, a credible threat of infringement can actually be bene cial to the patentholder. We compare the two doctrines of damages under the liability rule, namely, lost pro t (lo...

Real-world dispute resolution should be guided by laws, even if such disputes may be resolved by bodies other than the court of laws. Hence in order to build contract dispute resolution systems we need a tool capable of representing, reasoning and programming with contract laws. In this paper we present such a tool called MoDiSo (MOdular Argumentation for DIspute ReSOlution) which combines the ...

John Perry (1986) has argued that language, thought and experience often contain unarticulated constituents. John Campbell (1993, 1994, 1998) has taken up a similar theme with his distinction between monadic and relational notions and the related notion of causal indexicals, as has Sydney Shoemaker (1994). I shall argue (using Perry’s terminology) that the presence of unarticulated constituents...