Comment to Stephen Seligman

A Seligman-Style Tableau System

Proof systems for hybrid logic typically use @-operators to access information hidden behind modalities; this labeling approach lies at the heart of most resolution, natural deduction, and tableau systems for hybrid logic. But there is another, less well-known approach, which we have come to believe is conceptually clearer. We call this Seligman-style inference, as it was first introduced and e...

Response to Stephen Holgate.

P rofessor Stephen Holgate comments on our statement that “the new UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) puts more emphasis on bibliometric data and less on peer review than did its predecessor” [1]. As the Chair of Main Panel A of REF 2014, he describes the informed peer review process in his domain. In our opinion, peer review can indeed be considered as an ideal way of evaluating research. ...

Response to Stephen Duffy

From Helplessness to Hope: The Seminal Career of Martin Seligman

This book explores a specific field of psychological research, but it also celebrates the profound contributions to this field of Martin E. P. Seligman. Therefore, the book blends the history of this research enterprise and Seligman's own intellectual history. This chapter reviews the modest origins of the phenomenon of "learned helplessness" in the animal laboratory, its extensions to human be...

Comment on “ Response to PNAS paper by Kerby Shedden and Stephen Cooper ”

Before any detailed comments, a few general points should be noted. Although I am not a professional statistician, I have learned enough about statistics to understand that there may be many ways of looking at the same problem, and different approaches to various issues of statistical analysis. This means that reasonable and alternative approaches may be in opposition and come to different conc...