Peter Simons has argued that the expression ‘the universe’ is not a genuine singular term: it can name neither a single, completely encompassing individual, nor a collection of individuals. (It is, rather, a semantically plural term standing equally for every existing object.) I offer reasons for resisting Simons’s arguments on both scores.

This third issue of Neurology® Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation incorporates a number of fascinating and informative clinical reports, including a presentation of prion disease as hyperacusis from Merkler et al. as well as a case of NMDA receptor antibody disease associated with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss from Taraschenko et al. In the case reported by Merkler et al., central audit...

Using computational approaches to emotion in design appears problematic for a range of technical, cultural and aesthetic reasons. After introducing some of the reasons as to why I am sceptical of such approaches, I describe a prototype we built that tried to address some of these problems, using sensor-based inferencing to comment upon domestic 'well-being' in ways that encouraged users to take...

of invited talk Aravind K. Joshi Department of Computer and Information Science and Institute for Research in Cognitive Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA USA [email protected] In a dependency grammar (DG) dependency rep­ resentations (trees) directly express the depen­ dency relations between words. The hierarchical structure emerges out of the representation. There are no l...