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16Theory construction and selection in modern physics: the S matrixCambridge University Press. 1990.One of the major philosophical problems in physical sciences is what criteria should determine how scientific theories are selected and justified in practice and whether, in describing observable physical phenomena, such theories are effectively constrained to be unique. This book studies the example of a particular theory, the S-matrix theory. The S-matrix program was initiated by Heisenberg to deal with difficulties encountered in quantum field theories in describing particular phenomena. Sinc…Read more
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9The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature ed. by Thomas Biggs and Jessica BlumClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 113 (1): 110-112. 2019.
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10Combining integrated systems-biology approaches with intervention-based experimental design provides a higher-resolution path forward for microbiome researchBehavioral and Brain Sciences 42. 2019.The Hooks et al. review of microbiota-gut-brain literature provides a constructive criticism of the general approaches encompassing MGB research. This commentary extends their review by: highlighting capabilities of advanced systems-biology “-omics” techniques for microbiome research and recommending that combining these high-resolution techniques with intervention-based experimental design may be the path forward for future MGB research.
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68A. Rijksbaron : New Approaches to Greek Particles. Proceedings of the Colloquium held in Amsterdam, 4–6 January 1996,to honour C. J. Ruijgh on the occasion of his retirement. Pp. 285. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1997. Cased, Hfl. 140. ISBN: 90-5063-097-9 (review)The Classical Review 49 (2): 594-595. 1999.
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42P. Jackson: Verbis pingendis. Contributions to the Study of Ritual Speech and Mythopoieia. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft: Vorträge und Kleinere Schriften 72.) Pp. 71. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 2002. Paper, €16. ISBN:3-85124-685-3 (review)The Classical Review 53 (2): 492-492. 2003.
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78Fortson IV Indo-European Language and Culture. An Introduction. Pp. xviii + 468, maps. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Cased, £65 . ISBN: 1-4051-0315-9 (review)The Classical Review 56 (1): 89-90. 2006.
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14Stuart-Smith Phonetics and Philology. Sound Change in Italic. Pp. xxiv + 270, maps, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Cased, £45. ISBN: 0-19-925773-6 (review)The Classical Review 56 (1): 144-145. 2006.
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17A Fluid Ideal: Dialectical Virtues and the Possibility of DebatePhilosophy and Rhetoric 52 (1): 56-62. 2019.Consider "debate" in the largest sense. In English, the word goes back to the fourteenth century and has a broad range of meanings. It can mean contention and quarreling and physical conflict early on but later settles into meanings of dispute, controversy, argument, discussion, and deliberation, especially regarding public matters. It can also mean to deliberate inwardly—to discuss or consider some issue with oneself. A philosophical antecedent of "debate" might be dialégomai, with meanings and…Read more
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17Toward TruthPhilosophy and Rhetoric 51 (4): 368-391. 2018.There are two general senses of "post-truth." One is a contemporary, popular sense that captures the manner in which facts and truths have lost their power to inform public discussion and debate. This first sense is relatively new and is related to the explosion in the number of agencies and media by which truth claims are created and distributed and the corresponding monetization of the production of truth claims. There are so many news outlets, so many reports, so many conflicting versions of …Read more
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4Social Issues in America: An EncyclopediaSharpe Reference. 2006.Discusses subjects such as the environment, medicine, defense, media, politics, and the economy, with each entry presenting a chronology of the issue, discussion of historical and contemporary developments, glossary, and bibliography.
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19The Importance of Heisenberg's S-Matrix Program for the Theoretical High-Energy Physics of the 1950'sCentaurus 29 (2): 110-149. 1986.
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The Theory of JustificationDissertation, Princeton University. 1981.Analytic epistemologists, over the last two decades, have been troubled by two vexing and seemingly unrelated problems. First they have been trying to describe the "structure" of justification of our knowledge claims; this enterprise has been called the "foundationalism debate." Secondly though, they have also been trying to formulate precisely the necessary and sufficient conditions for "knowing;" this difficulty has come to be known as the "Gettier Problem." The first project deals with episte…Read more
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14“Now my charms are all o’erthrown”: Intertextuality and the Theme of Succession and Replacement in Clash of the TitansClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 111 (4): 549-573. 2018.
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9The aim of this thesis is to explore the place of physical geography in Scottish Enlightenment accounts of stadial theory. It does this through examining the historical works of the following authors: Adam Ferguson, Henry Home,, John Millar and Adam Smith. Stimulated by the 1748 publication of Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws each of these individuals presented distinctive explanations for historical progress. Conventional interpretations of Scottish Enlightenment accounts of stadial theory have…Read more
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20Synapse Pruning: Mitochondrial ROS with Their Hands on the ShearsBioessays 40 (7): 1800031. 2018.No overarching hypotheses tie the basic mechanisms of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production to activity dependent synapse pruning—a fundamental biological process in health and disease. Neuronal activity divergently regulates mitochondrial ROS: activity decreases whereas inactivity increases their production, respectively. Placing mitochondrial ROS as innate synaptic activity sentinels informs the novel hypothesis that: (1) at an inactive synapse, increased mitochondrial ROS pro…Read more
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4Move it or lost it? The ecological ethics of relocating species under climate changeEcological Applications 20 (7). 2010.Managed relocation (also known as assisted colonization, assisted migration) is one of the more controversial proposals to emerge in the ecological community in recent years. A conservation strategy involving the translocation of species to novel ecosystems in anticipation of range shifts forced by climate change, managed relocation (MR) has divided many ecologists and conservationists, mostly because of concerns about the potential invasion risk of the relocated species in their new environment…Read more
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17Struggles vs Symptoms: The Narrative Approach to Mental Illness (review)The European Legacy 23 (4): 447-451. 2018.
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23Harvard Classics and the Harvard SchoolClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 111 (1): 61-62. 2017.
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50Adrift in the gray zone: IRB perspectives on research in the learning health systemAJOB Empirical Bioethics 7 (2): 125-134. 2016.
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14Free ThinkingDissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education. 2016.In this dissertation I offer a justification of the claim that the development of those faculties necessary for autonomy should be a primary goal of public education, available to all children. To do this I 1) place autonomy into the framework of Capability Theory, showing why autonomy is essential to a full concept of human freedom, cleaning up some rough edges in the Capability Theory literature in the process; 2) demonstrate how thinking of freedom in terms of Capability Theory elucidates per…Read more
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Quantum Mechanics. Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen HegemonyJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 27 (2): 353-358. 1996.
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61Stanley Cavell and the Predicament of PhilosophyProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 57 (n/a): 88. 1983.
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Theory Construction and Selection in Modern Physics: The S MatrixBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43 (3): 431-433. 1992.
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