PHILOSOPHY VII 1999 1. Opening WHAT IS THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF OUR KNOWledge of the truths of arithmetic? Are they analytic, the products of pure reason, as Leibniz held? Or are they high-level empirical truths that we know only a posteriori, as some empiricists, particularly Mill, have held? Or was Kant right to say that, although our knowledge that ‘5+7=12’ depends essentially upon intu...

Across scientific disciplines, there is a rapidly growing recognition of the need for more statistically robust, transparent approaches to data visualization. Complementary this, many scientists have called plotting tools that accurately and transparently convey key aspects statistical effects raw with minimal distortion. Previously common approaches, such as conditional mean or median b...

Most econometric methods for testing the proposition of long-run monetary neutrality rely on the assumption that money and real output do not cointegrate. This paper argues that these results can be attributed in part to the low power of univariate tests, and that a violation of the noncointegration assumption is likely to result in a nonrejection of the neutrality proposition. To alleviate thi...