Consulting Physician to St. Thomas' Hospital. Only a few weeks ago we in Ulster noted with special interest you had become an Orangeman-Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau. We trust you will treasure the Honorary Fellowship of the Ulster Medical Society as a token of the esteem and affection with which you are held by your many friends in Northern Ireland. Mr. President, I beg to presen...

The R language has withstood the test of time. Forty years after it was initially developed (in the form of the S language) R is being used by millions of programmers on workflows the inventors of the language could never have imagined. Although base R packages perform well in most settings, workflows can be made more efficient by developing packages with more consistent arguments, inputs and o...

We amplify possible complications to the tidy division between early vision and later categorisation which arise when we consider the perception of human faces. Although a primitive face-detecting system, used for social attention, may indeed be integral to “early vision,” the relationship between this and diverse other uses made of information from faces

What is the minimal algebraic structure to reason about information flow? Do we really need the full power of Boolean algebras with co-closure and de Morgan dual operators? Howmuch canweweaken and still be able to reason about multi-agent scenarios in a tidy compositional way? This paper provides some answers.

Why do we find agents less blameworthy when they face mitigating circumstances, and what does this show about philosophical theories of moral responsibility? We present novel evidence that the tendency to mitigate blameworthiness is driven both by perception are normatively competent – in particular, able know doing wrong their behavior attributable deep selves. Consequently, argue philosophers...