the editorial from the last issue of the Croa-tian Medical Journal (CMJ), we described the challenge to the quality of the Journal and integrity of its editors, put forward by one of the Journal owners – Zagreb University School of Medicine , at its Council meeting in November 2007 (1). We invited our critics – the dean of the Za-invited to speak about the CMJ at the Council meeting, to voice t...

Can we forecast the probability of an arbitrary sequence of events happening so that the stated probability of an event happening is close to its empirical probability? We can view this prediction problem as a game played against Nature, where at the beginning of the game Nature picks a data sequence and the forecaster picks a forecasting algorithm. If the forecaster is not allowed to randomise...

Recently, I was walking though the front hallway of Weiskotten Hall late in the evening, thinking about all the things I had to do in the next day, and looked up from my worry to see something I had missed after 21 years at Upstate. I am not sure how I missed it since it’s 3 X 6 feet, hangs on the wall and is immortalized in bronze and 4 inch letters, but I did. When I saw it, it stopped me in ...

Public health involves the application of a wide variety of scientific and non-scientific disciplines to the very practical problems of improving population health and preventing disease. Public health has received surprisingly little attention from philosophers of science. In this chapter we consider some neglected but important philosophical aspects of the science of public health. To appear ...