Critical exchange: Avoiding schooling taboos: A reply to Rasmussen

Reply to “A Critical Review of Proximal Fibular Osteotomy for Knee Osteoarthritis”

Proximal fibular osteotomy is a surgical procedure that has evoked significant interest and controversy in the recent past. Vaishya et al have made a significant effort in compiling the available evidence on the topic. However, we would like to make some significant suggestions and additions to the findings in their manuscript.

Avoiding Omnidoxasticity in Logics of Belief: A Reply to MacPherson

In recent work MacPherson argues that the standard method of modeling belief logically, as a necessity operator in a modal logic, is doomed to fail. The problem with normal modal logics as logics of belief is that they treat believers as “ideal” in unrealistic ways (i.e., as omnidoxastic); however, similar problems re-emerge for candidate non-normal logics. The authors argue that logics used to...

Empirical Objections to Torture: A Critical Reply

PET Studies of Phonological Processing: A Critical Reply to Poeppel

Poeppel (1996) raises a number of criticisms about the methods and reported results for eight studies of phonological processing from six different neuroimaging laboratories. We would freely admit that valid criticisms of PET methodology can be made and that, like any method, it has limitations; in fact, we and others have engaged in such critical commentary (Steinmetz & Seitz, 1991; Sergent et...

Reply to: The Lens Fluid Circulation Model—A Critical Appraisal

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