The idea that we have special access to our own mental states has a distinguished philosophical history. Philosophers as different as Descartes and Locke agreed that we know our own minds in a way that is quite different from the way in which we know other minds. In the latter half of the 20 century, however, this idea came under serious attack, first from philosophy (Sellars 1956) and more rec...

A chirp-minimized, nanosecond-pulsed system has been developed to generate tunable coherent ultraviolet light at ∼212.5 nm by fourth-harmonic conversion of output from an amplified, injection-seeded optical parametric oscillator (OPO). Our CHAPS (coherent heterodyneassisted pulsed spectroscopy) method is used to characterize the frequency stability and optical bandwidth of the system’s output r...

The relationship between wheat flour in the diet and the development of symptoms in children with coeliac disease observed by Dicke (1950) has been established. Subsequent investigations indicated that the injurious factor occurs principally in the gliadin ifraction (van de Kamer, Weijers and Dicke, 1953). Weijers and van de Kamer (1955) used gliadin in a method of testing wheat sensitivity hop...

This collection of twelve essays is an excellent book on Gustav Bergmann's philosophy. With the exception of W. Sellars' "Seeing, Seeming, and Sensing," K. Lehrer's "Belief and Error," and E. Steinus' "The Problem of Color Incompatibility," all of the essays are about central themes in Bergmann's philosophy. What adds to the high quality of the book is that it contains serious criticisms of Ber...

In this paper I will argue that if physics is to become a coherent metaphysics of nature it needs an “interpretation”. As I understand it, an interpretation of a physical theory amounts to offering (1) a precise formulation of its ontological claims and (2) a clear account of how such claims are related to the world of our experience. Notably, metaphysics enters importantly in both tasks: in (1...