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The Concept of Laws in Social Science: A Critique and Notes on an Expanded View

Agnostic Notes on Regression Adjustments to Experimental Data: Reexamining Freedman’s Critique By

Freedman [Adv. in Appl. Math. 40 (2008) 180–193; Ann. Appl. Stat. 2 (2008) 176–196] critiqued ordinary least squares regression adjustment of estimated treatment effects in randomized experiments, using Neyman’s model for randomization inference. Contrary to conventional wisdom, he argued that adjustment can lead to worsened asymptotic precision, invalid measures of precision, and small-sample ...

The Creature Before the Law: Notes on Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence

Transforming as it does from an exemplar of meticulous philosophical analysis into an allusive political/messianic tract, Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” is representative of all that is most difficult about his work. Against those critics who find the eschatological dimensions of Benjamin’s texts unpalatable and/or philosophically bankrupt, however, the wager of this paper is that it ...

Autobiographical notes

I was born in Zagreb (Croatia) on October 26, 1936. My parents were Regina (née Pavić) (April17, 1916, Zagreb–March 9, 1992, Zagreb) and Cvjetko Trinajstić (September 9, 1913, Volosko–October 29, 1998, Richmond, Australia).

Forensic psychiatry: critique of a critique.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Forensic psychiatrists are the only psychiatrists that blush or need to." Dr. Alan Stone attempts to measure forensic psychiatry with an ethical ruler and finds it sadly short. The Hinckley trial was the most recent example that evoked yet another reexamination of the insanity defense and the role of psychiatrists in that process. Although this trial is never specific...