Perhaps the most important point to make about Robert Klee’s recent Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: Cutting Nature at its Seams is that we need many more books like it: it is an engaging, accessible and comprehensive introductory text in the philosophy of science which manages to avoid sailing over the head of the beginner philosophy student without talking down to the working profes...

The small world phenomenon is the principle that all people are linked by short chains of acquaintances. For instance, “six degrees of separation” is the idea that everyone is linked by chains of people at most 6 persons long. That is, given any persons A and B; there are a chain of people such that A knows C who knows D who knows E who knows F who knows G whoe knows H who knows B: Other exampl...

In this paper, we distinguish three important classes of dishonesty that can occur in multi-agent systems, as well as in human society. In particular, the distinction is being made between lies and bullshit, following the work of Harry Frankfurt. The difference is that someone who tells a lie has access to the truth, whereas the concept of bullshit requires no knowledge of the truth at all. Tha...

Why two formulas for the electric field intensity and the magnetic induction created by a uniformly moving point charge? Abstract A derivation of the electric field intensity and of the magnetic induction generated by a uniformly moving point charge is presented. The derivation is in accordance with the fact that the electric and magnetic fields of moving charge are propagating from the charge ...