This afterword addresses four broad questions raised by this special issue: uncertainty as a mode of governance, the ontological politics naturalisation, citizen-noncitizen distinction, and performative (anxious) states. First, taking neoliberal governance starting point analysis, invites scrutiny ways in which artifice citizenship are concealed or rendered irrelevant naturalisation processes. ...

What distinguishes abductive inference from other modes of inference? What distinguishes the different forms of abductive inference? These are perhaps the key questions that face the student of abduction, and the core of Lorenzo Magnani’s book is devoted to them. The book contains, among other things, a defence of several putative distinctions, and it touches on an impressively wide range of pe...

Seymour Pollack developed three categorizing definitions which provided forensic psychiatry with a logical framework for development as a subspecialty of general psychiatry. The first definition separated the body of information related to the interaction oflaw and psychiatry required by the general psychiatrist from information specific to the subspecialty of forensic psychiatry. The general p...