1 Anscombe’s term for such knowledge in Intention is “practical knowledge”. However, I have avoided that term as I wish to defend the idea that agents have a distinctive non-observational knowledge of their actions without being committed to her claims about the existence of a kind of knowledge with a reverse direction of fit from ordinary knowledge. 2 The idea originates in English speaking ph...

It has recently been widely argued that all consciousness is perceptual, including the conscious experience of action. This paper argues that there can be a conscious component of the experience of action that is not perceptual. The argument is based on Searle’s concept of “direction of fit” and the conditions of satisfaction of an intention. The conditions of satisfaction of an intention diffe...

February 19, 2015 Version 1.4.7 Date 2013-03-04 Author Peter Frommolt Maintainer Peter Frommolt Title Inferences for biand trifactorial trial designs Depends mvtnorm,multcomp,lattice,graphics,methods,Rcpp (>= 0.8.8) LinkingTo Rcpp Description This package makes global and multiple inferences for given biand trifactorial clinical trial designs using bootstrap method...

In the past, full-service stock brokerage firms had a strategic advantage over discount brokers because of the control full-service brokers had over the information provided to the customer. Full-service stockbrokers acted as information intermediaries in that they were able to capture residual value from the transfer of information to make a profit. Strategic vulnerability occurs, in this case...

One goal of genome projects is to systematically identify genes (1,2). The best current knowledge indicates that humans carry approximately 35000 genes. This number is an estimate that varies from expert to expert and range up to 100,000 (3-5). To anyone who has taken an elementary biology class, this ambiguity must seem strange. How hard can it be to count genes? After all, don't cells transla...

The braid group Bn is the mapping class group of an n-punctured disk. An n-braid is reducible if it has an invariant essential curve system in the punctured disk. We show that for some class of reducible braids (including split braids), finding a reduction system is as easy as finding one element in the ultra summit set.

At any stage in a well-run conversation, a certain amount is presupposed. The parties to the conversation take it for granted; or at least they purport to, whether sincerely or just “for the sake of the argument”. Presuppositions can be created or destroyed in the course of a conversation. This change is rule-governed, at least up to a point. The presuppositions at time r’ depend, in a way abou...