In the early twentieth-century psychoanalytic case history, Jewish psychoanalysts faced discursive challenges in the presentation of Jewish patients. Under the supervision and guidance of Freud, the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940), authored case histories of a rabbi and a priest, both of whom he diagnosed with ‘‘occupational neuroses.’’ In this article, the author compares the case his...

The well-studied notion of deductive explosion describes the situation where any formula can be deduced from an inconsistent set of formulas. In other words, in deductively explosive logics, we have {φ,¬φ} ⊢ ψ for all formulas φ, ψ where ⊢ is a logical consequence relation. In this respect, both “classical” and intuitionistic logics are known to be deductively explosive. Paraconsistent logic, o...

An influential theory argues that court-ordered school finance equalization undermines support for public schools. Residents of wealthy school districts who cannot keep their tax revenues for their own school districts may vote to limit school funding altogether. Proponents of this theory point to Serrano v. Priest, a 1977 decision of the California Supreme Court that mandated equalization of s...

The sciences occasionally generate discoveries that undermine their own assumptions. Two such discoveries are characterized here: the discovery of apophenia by cognitive psychology and the discovery that physical systems cannot be locally bounded within quantum theory. It is shown that such discoveries have a common structure and that this common structure is an instance of Priest’s well-known ...

Issues related to the plaintiff’s win rate in litigated cases have been discussed, and contested, for more than 30 years. In a seminal paper, Priest and Klein (1984) pointed out that it’s not an accident that some cases are litigated while others aren’t. Consider a simple litigation system that has essentially no procedural law. When disputes materialize, the parties may take them to court for ...

Chapter 2 of Women in Ministry tries to explain why there are no women priests in Israel. Its author, an Old Testament scholar, maintains that the absence of female priests in ancient Israel cannot be used as an argument against women’s ordination. The author states that he approaches the Bible through “exegetical research.” This, he explains, means that he “will not move from a priori definiti...