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Affordances and Intentionality: Reply to Roberts

In this essay we respond to some criticisms of the guidance theory of representation offered by Tom Roberts. We argue that although Roberts’ criticisms miss their mark, he raises the important issue of the relationship between affordances and the action-oriented representations proposed by the guidance theory. Affordances play a prominent role in the anti-representationalist accounts offered by...

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Systemic inflammation in osteoarthritis Several studies have shown that the acute phase response may take place in osteoarthritis (OA), suggesting that low grade systemic inflammation may be present in patients with OA. 1 2 I read with interest the paper by Stürmer et al on high sensitivity C reactive protein (CRP) in relation to the severity and extent of OA. 3 As assessed by high sensitivity ...

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Significantly, the school has already forged strong partnerships with communities in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven districts, as was clear from the many community leaders present at the ceremony. The GSM’s primary goal is to graduate doctors committed to serving in regional, rural and remote Australia. In the words of the university’s Vice-Chancellor, the school’s model is designed “to address t...

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to our findings. The authors further state that " … the same observations were also made for STAT6 (Chen et al., 2004). " Meissner et al. incubated the cells with MTA In their Matters Arising article, Meissner et al. present several experiments that call into question our conclu-in DMSO, whereas we had solubilized MTA in tissue culture media. While somewhat unexpected, this differ-sions from th...