If Only Math Majors Could Write...

Embedding If and Only If

Compounds of indicative conditionals present some puzzling phenomena. Perhaps most striking, some nested indicative conditionals are uninterpretable. Proponents of NTV hold that indicative conditionals do not have truth values, and they use this to explain why nested indicative conditionals are sometimes uninterpretable: the embedded conditional does not provide the truth conditions needed by t...

A Comparison of Personality Type and Learning Style of Elementary Education Majors, Math Majors, and Math Professors: Cultures in Conflict

If a Machine Could Talk

This paper investigates a set of ideas collected from philosophy of language, complexity theory, language technology, cognitive science and literary criticism in an attempt to throw light on the (im)possibility of language technology. It is argued that a fundamental difference between humans and computers can be described in terms of a distinction between complex and complicated systems. Howeve...

If these data could talk

In the last few decades, data-driven methods have come to dominate many fields of scientific inquiry. Open data and open-source software have enabled the rapid implementation of novel methods to manage and analyze the growing flood of data. However, it has become apparent that many scientific fields exhibit distressingly low rates of reproducibility. Although there are many dimensions to this i...

If You Could Only Choose Five Psychotropic Medicines: Updating the Interagency Emergency Health Kit

1 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, 2 WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, 3 Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland (MSF-H, Doctors without Borders-Holland), Amsterda...