CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM

Constructive Criticism

A Constructive Criticism of the C/C++ Proposal for Complex Arithmetic

The IEEE 754 and 854 standards regulate the behaviour of real floating-point arithmetic, as implemented in most current hardand software systems. Although a myriad of libraries for complex floating-point arithmetic is available and in use, there is no general consensus on their implementation. The International C Standard describes in its Annex G guidelines for the implementation of complex ari...

Constructive Criticism: An evaluation of Buller and Hardcastle’s genetic and neuroscientific arguments against Evolutionary Psychology

Constructive Criticism: An evaluation of Buller and Hardcastle’s genetic and neuroscientific arguments against Evolutionary Psychology Catherine Driscoll North Carolina State University Abstract David Buller and Valerie Hardcastle have argued that various discoveries about the genetics and nature of brain development show that most “central” psychological mechanisms cannot be adaptations becaus...

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

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