Spyridon Orestis Palermos This paper focuses on the hypothesis of the extended cognition (HEC), and in particular, on two interrelated objections to it, namely the coupling-constitution fallacy and the cognitive bloat worry. Briefly, if there is no principled way in which we can decide whether a (cognitive) process depends on extra-neural (or extra-organismic) factors in a causal, or constituti...

Medical Memoranda BRJoII of yG, yA, yM, and yD, but the interstitial tissue was positive for yG. COMMENT At first the diagnosis was thought to be gastric carcinoma with clear-cut dermatomyositis, but operative histology and later post-mortem examination revealed undoubted plasmacytoma, with involvement of the bone marrow. This diagnosis had not been suggested by the clinical findings or by the ...

Because law enforcement officers must justify searches and seizures in response to motions to suppress evidence,! judges ruling upon these motions often must evaluate the credibility of the officers' testimony. This inquiry can involve one or more of three interrelated questions: Did the facts known to the officer justify the intrusion? Was the officer's purpose in conducting the search and sei...

The poet Shelley once said that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.* 1 He was right. Societies are shaped by images, metaphors and tropes word-pictures of what particular societies stand for, what principles are important, where the societies are heading. These images are often constitutive in the sense that they provide a unifying language of public action, shape individuals...

n August 2000, New Zealand’s left minority coalition will abolish the Employment Contracts Act. In conjunction with other interventionist legislation, this marks a far-reaching revision of the country’s current liberal ‘economic constitution’, i.e. the fundamental rules that determine how people coordinate their activities (Kasper 2000: 20-25). Seen in isolation, most of the legislative changes...

This past year, Judge Richard Posner published a pair of essays endorsing the common law method of constitutional interpretation. “David Strauss is right,” he wrote, in a contribution to Slate’s annual Supreme Court Breakfast Table. “The Supreme Court treats the Constitution like it is authorizing the court to create a common law of constitutional law, based on current concerns, not what those ...

The isolation of vitamin Kz as a yellow crystalline compound melting at 53.5-54.5” has recently been reported from this laboratory (McKee, Binkley, MacCorquodale, Thayer, and Doisy, 1939; McKee, Binkley, Thayer, MacCorquodale, and Doisy, 1939). From the analytical data it was impossible to decide definitely on a formula for vitamin Kz. The formula C&H5402 was used for all calculations, although...