We belong together? A plea for modesty in modal plural logic

It is often assumed that pluralities are rigid, in the sense of having all and only their actual members necessarily. This assumption is operative in standard approaches to modal plural logic. I argue that a sceptical approach towards the assumption is warranted

Transcendental Arguments: A Plea for Modesty

A modest transcendental argument is one that sets out merely to establish how things need to appear to us or how we need to believe them to be, rather than how things are. Stroud's claim to have established that all transcendental arguments must be modest in this way is criticised and rejected. However, a different case for why we should abandon ambitious transcendental arguments is presented: namely, that when it comes to establishing claims about how things are, there is no reason to prefer transcendental arguments to arguments that rely on the evidence of the senses, making the former redundant in a way that modest transcendental arguments, which have a different kind of sceptical target, are not

The Bounds of Naturalism: A Plea for Modesty

Nous reformulons la question du naturalisme sur le terrain de la pratique scientifique en privilégiant une analyse épistémologique fine des méthodes, procédures et concepts employés en psychologie. L’enjeu devient alors opérationnel: celui de la mise en place d’un cadre exact et expérimental permettant de rendre compte de la phénoménologie de l’expérience.We reformulate the issue of naturalism within the realm of scientific practices by suggesting that a fine-grained epistemological analysis of the methods, procedures and concepts of psychology is needed. The outcome of this attempt turns out to be operational as it concerns the construction of an exact and experimental approach that allows one to account for the phenomenology of mental states and processes

The Status of NeuroLaw: A Plea for Current Modesty and Future, Cautious Optimism

In a 2002 editorial published in The Economist, the following warning was given: “Genetics may yet threaten privacy, kill autonomy, make society homogeneous and gut the concept of human nature. But neuroscience could do all of these things first.”1 The genome was fully sequenced in 2001, and there has not been one resulting major advance in therapeutic medicine since. Thus, even in its most natural applied domain—medicine—genetics has not had the far-reaching consequences that were envisioned.2 The same has been true of various other sciences that were predicted to revolutionize the law, including behavioral psychology, sociology, and psychodynamic psychology, to name but a few. This will also be true of neuroscience, which is simply the newest science on the block. Neuroscience is not going to do the terrible things The Economist fears, at least not in the foreseeable future. Neuroscience has many things to say, but not nearly as much as people would hope, especially in relation to law. At most, in the near to intermediate term, neuroscience may make modest contributions to legal policy and case adjudication. Nonetheless, there has been irrational exuberance about the potential contribution of neuroscience, an issue I have addressed previously and referred to as “brain overclaim syndrome.”

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:2 (2014)- Whole Issue

ARTICLES 44 Brain Imaging for Judges: An Introduction to Law and Neuroscience. 52 Evidentiary Incommensurability: A Preliminary Exploration of the Problem of Reasoning from General Scientific Data to Individualized Legal Decision-Making. 62 The Admissibility of Brain Scans in Criminal Trials: The Case of Positron Emission Tomography. 70 Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public Policy?. 78 Pain as Fact and Heuristic: How Pain Neuroimaging Illuminates Moral Dimensions of Law. 94 The Status of NeuroLaw: A Plea for Current Modesty and Future, Cautious Optimism. ESSAY 104 Keeping Up with Neurolaw: What to Know and Where to Look. DEPARTMENTS 42 Editor’s Note. 43 President’s Column. 108 The Resource Page

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:2 (2014)- Contents

ARTICLES 44 Brain Imaging for Judges: An Introduction to Law and Neuroscience. 52 Evidentiary Incommensurability: A Preliminary Exploration of the Problem of Reasoning from General Scientific Data to Individualized Legal Decision-Making. 62 The Admissibility of Brain Scans in Criminal Trials: The Case of Positron Emission Tomography. 70 Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public Policy?. 78 Pain as Fact and Heuristic: How Pain Neuroimaging Illuminates Moral Dimensions of Law. 94 The Status of NeuroLaw: A Plea for Current Modesty and Future, Cautious Optimism. ESSAY 104 Keeping Up with Neurolaw: What to Know and Where to Look. DEPARTMENTS 42 Editor’s Note. 43 President’s Column. 108 The Resource Page

Economic Analysis of Education Policies - Introduction

Vouchers, peer effect, treatment effects, program evaluation, education

The Argument of Hebrews

This is a commentary on the book of Hebrew

Eumolpus' Pro encolpio and Lichas' In encolpium: Petr. Sat. 107

No abstract available