Is Beta Dead?” (Wallace [1980]) and other recent articles have asked whether broad consequences, disastrous to modern investment technology, would result from misspecification of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), or worse yet, from falsehood of the model. The criticisms have cited imprecise specification of the market portfolio as a misapplication of the CAPM, and have emphasized the diff...

In a recent paper concerning the direct introspection of brain states (1985b) I leveled three criticisms against Frank Jackson's "knowledge argument." At stake was his bold claim that no materialist account of mind can possibly account for all mental phenomena. Jackson has replied to those criticisms in his 1986. It is to those replies, and to the issues that prompted them, that the present cha...

A critical presentation of Rovelli’s “evolving constants of motion” is given. Previous criticisms by Kuchař concerning the role of factor ordering and the non-existence of observables are dealt with and shown to be unfounded. Kuchař’s criticisms that this approach does not solve the global, multiple choice or Hilbert space problems of time are confirmed, and new insight into why this is so is o...

Recent literature on Bohm’s alternative to mainstream quantum mechanics may create the misleading impression that, except for perfunctory dismissals, the theory was ignored by the physics community in the years immediately following its proposal. As a matter of fact, Einstein, Pauli, and Heisenberg all published criticisms of Bohm’s theory, explaining their reasons for not accepting the theory....

Purpose – To delineate confusions and uncertainties of the issues surrounding those criticisms. Critics assert that all marketing of medical products is abusive, while actual impacts are disputed. Design/methodology/approach – Pulling from past commentaries on pharmaceutical marketing and current criticisms of the practice, to indicate areas of confusion. Findings – The ills of pharmaceutical m...

INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................854 I. THEORIES AND CRITIQUES OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES ........................857 A. The History and Theories of Punitive Damages Awards ......... 857 B. Critiques of Punitive Damages ........................................... 860 II. THE SUPREME COURT’S PUNITIVE DAMAGES JURISPRUDENCE .......863 III....